# Problem with curl.exe (Windows) and package installation

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**Created:** [October 5, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problem-with-curl-exe-windows-and-package-installation/29525 "2019-10-05T18:12:36Z")\
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In Wondows 10 (I don’t know for other Windows versions).

1. Open a command prompt, and type `echo %APPDATA%` to get the personal app data folder.
2. Create an empty file called `_curlrc` in the app data folder.
3. Write `insecure` on that file and save.
4. Relaunch julia and build all affected packages with `] up` or similar.

Hope this is detailed enough.

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