Precompile Package Error: " IOError: could not spawn setenv"

Tooling Package Management
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I have been using Julia for about 6 months now very heavily on two devices a Mac and Linux (Pop!_OS 22.04) and suddenly one day the package manager with Julia on my Linux machine broke. All the packages that I had been using weren’t recognized any more and when I went to re-download them I am given this error that gets stuck in a loop continuously outputting this to the terminal until I kill the process. I genuinely have no idea what caused this happen. This is an example of what happens when I run "] add SpecialFunctions "

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Any idea how to fix this?

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I am getting the same error and am wondering if you fixed this in your case. If you did, what did you do?

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For the record, based on the thread Could not spawn setenv error - #5 by giordano the problem may be that the Julia package in PopOS is broken. You may want to use the official binaries, or use juliaup to automatically manage multiple installations.

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