# Problem loading ducklake extension
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-loading-ducklake-extension/130154
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** duckdb
**Created:** [June 24, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-loading-ducklake-extension/130154 "2025-06-24T03:45:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@kobusherbst](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kobusherbst)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-loading-ducklake-extension/130154/1 "2025-06-24T03:45:24Z")
When trying to load the ducklake extension in DuckDB v1.3.1 I get the following error:
```julia
ERROR: Execute of query "LOAD ducklake;" failed: HTTP Error: Failed to download extension "ducklake" at URL "http://extensions.duckdb.org/v1.3.1/x86_64-w64-mingw32/ducklake.duckdb_extension.gz" (HTTP 403)
Extension "ducklake" is an existing extension.
=ducklake
Stacktrace:
[1] execute(stmt::DuckDB.Stmt, params::Tuple{})
@ DuckDB C:\Users\kobus\.julia\packages\DuckDB\Bxsbt\src\result.jl:734
[2] execute
@ C:\Users\kobus\.julia\packages\DuckDB\Bxsbt\src\result.jl:709 [inlined]
[3] execute(con::DuckDB.Connection, sql::String, result_type::Type)
@ DuckDB C:\Users\kobus\.julia\packages\DuckDB\Bxsbt\src\result.jl:876
[4] execute(con::DuckDB.Connection, sql::String)
@ DuckDB C:\Users\kobus\.julia\packages\DuckDB\Bxsbt\src\result.jl:881
[5] top-level scope
@ d:\repos\JuliaScratch.jl\src\ducklake.jl:11
```
Code:
```julia
using DuckDB
using DBInterface
using DataFrames
file_name = "duck data.db"
db = DuckDB.DB(file_name)
conn = DBInterface.connect(db)
try
df = DuckDB.query(db,"SELECT version() as duckdb_version;") |> DataFrame
show(df)
DBInterface.execute(conn, "LOAD ducklake;")
finally
close(conn)
DBInterface.close!(db)
end
```
Program output:
```julia
1×1 DataFrame
Row │ duckdb_version
│ String
─────┼────────────────
1 │ v1.3.1
```
When running duckdb CLI, the extension is loaded successfully and functions normally.
VersionInfo:
```julia
versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.11.5
Commit 760b2e5b73 (2025-04-14 06:53 UTC)
Build Info:
Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
CPU: 48 × AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7960X 24-Cores
WORD_SIZE: 64
LLVM: libLLVM-16.0.6 (ORCJIT, znver4)
Threads: 10 default, 0 interactive, 5 GC (on 48 virtual cores)
Environment:
JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 10
JULIA_EDITOR = code
JULIA_VSCODE_REPL = 1
```
I get a similar error on Linux:
```julia
Julia Version 1.11.5
Commit 760b2e5b739 (2025-04-14 06:53 UTC)
Build Info:
Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
CPU: 8 × Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226 CPU @ 2.70GHz
WORD_SIZE: 64
LLVM: libLLVM-16.0.6 (ORCJIT, cascadelake)
Threads: 8 default, 0 interactive, 4 GC (on 8 virtual cores)
Environment:
JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 8
JULIA_EDITOR = code
JULIA_VSCODE_REPL = 1
JULIA_DUCKDB_LIBRARY = /usr/local/lib/libduckdb.so
```
where the error is:
```julia
ERROR: DuckDB.QueryException("Execute of query \"LOAD 'ducklake';\" failed: HTTP Error: Failed to download extension \"ducklake\" at URL \"http://extensions.duckdb.org/v1.3.1/x86_64-linux-gnu/ducklake.duckdb_extension.gz\" (HTTP 403)\nExtension \"ducklake\" is an existing extension.\n\nFor more info, visit https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/extensions/troubleshooting/?version=v1.3.1&platform=x86_64-linux-gnu&extension=ducklake")
```
Any thoughts on what is going wrong and how I can fix it?
Thank you
---
### Author:  [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-loading-ducklake-extension/130154/2 "2025-06-24T05:24:28Z")
Oh looks like it is related to the bug I encountered just the other day. If you scroll down to my comment, I link to a potential fix there: [duckdb.jl: installing extensions on linux pulls inexistent url · Issue #17743 · duckdb/duckdb · GitHub](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/17743)