# Problems installing registries and IJulia with Julia v1.5.2 in Windows 10 64 bit

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, package\
**Created:** [October 26, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025 "2020-10-26T05:15:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 16\
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**Author:** ![dineshgct](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@dineshgct](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dineshgct)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/1 "2020-10-26T05:15:35Z")

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Installation issue - Could anyone help?  
this is the command i use…but nothing is happening…keep says Installation known registeries… as mentioned below. I get no errors as well… what to do?

julia\> using Pkg

julia\> Pkg.add(“IJulia”)  
Installing known registries into `C:\Users\test\.julia`

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/2 "2020-10-26T11:23:48Z")

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Is the folder `C:\Users\test\` writable by the current user?  
Do you have any network restrictions while you try to install the IJulia package?

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**Author:** ![cet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cet/32/18549_2.png) [@cet](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cet)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/3 "2020-10-26T11:36:15Z")

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This can take 3-4 minutes.  
Take a look at `"[...]\.julia\registries\General"`.  
It must install the package registers from A to Z.

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**Author:** ![dineshgct](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@dineshgct](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dineshgct)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/4 "2020-10-27T02:01:07Z")

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Yes, it is writable and i have downloaded multiple python packages earlier in the same folder.

No network restrictions too

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**Author:** ![dineshgct](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@dineshgct](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dineshgct)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/5 "2020-10-27T02:01:40Z")

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I waited for very long time indeed

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/6 "2020-10-27T12:30:33Z")

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Seems odd.  
Could you try to remove (or rename) the folder `C:\Users\test\.julia` and than start Julia and do the following commands:

```julia
]

(@v1.5) pkg> instantiate

(@v1.5) pkg> add IJulia

```

the `]` means to enter ] at the REPL to enter _Pkg REPL mode_.

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**Author:** ![dineshgct](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@dineshgct](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dineshgct)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/7 "2020-10-27T13:40:21Z")

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thank you for your reply. I tried removing the folder and tried with your command

(@v1.5) pkg\> instantiate  
Installing known registries into `C:\Users\test\.julia`

Still the same issue. Fundamentally, something going wrong. Can u help, possibly, taking my system remote?

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/8 "2020-10-27T13:54:00Z")

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Same issue means, that after `instantiate` it takes _forever_ and _never_ ends? Or is it with _add IJulia_?

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**Author:** ![dineshgct](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@dineshgct](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dineshgct)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/9 "2020-10-27T13:56:37Z")

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thats right …  
after `instantiate` it takes _forever_ and _never_ ends

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/10 "2020-10-27T13:58:02Z")

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I have changed the header of this thread.  
We can do a teamviewer session but not too long. PM me with your teamviewer credentials.

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**Author:** ![dineshgct](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@dineshgct](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dineshgct)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/11 "2020-10-27T13:58:26Z")

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Also, it is the same… never ending for this command as well

(@v1.5) pkg\> add IJulia  
Installing known registries into `C:\Users\test\.julia`

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**Author:** ![dineshgct](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@dineshgct](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dineshgct)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/12 "2020-10-27T14:02:55Z")

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/13 "2020-10-27T18:28:29Z")

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It turned out, that with Julia 1.6 (nightly) there wasn’t any issue.  
With Julia 1.5.2, after removing .julia, `instantiate` doesn’t start doing anything except for creating .julia and inside folder logs and there file repl\_history.jl, but maybe this was created with the Julia start itself and not with `instantiate`.

Nothing else ever happens for a very, very long time.

Interrupting it with Ctrl-C prints an error that it can’t download some URL I don’t remember now.

Putting some print lines into Base.download and Base.download\_powershell showed, that it never reaches the download functions (Windows curl.exe has been renamed before). So the error message is something else, `initiate` is waiting for something, does nothing, is not reaching download functions. I was not able to find out, what it is doing.

We have tried several things: no network issue and no permission problems.

Setting JULIA\_DEPOT\_PATH doens’t change anything except for the folder of course.

A very weird issue!

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**Author:** ![RobertGru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/robertgru/32/20079_2.png) [@RobertGru](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RobertGru)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/14 "2020-12-09T00:04:47Z")

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Just have some patience. It takes a really long time. It looks like it has stopped, but then after some minutes it installs everything.

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**Author:** ![Warren\_Peng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/warren_peng/32/22693_2.png) [@Warren\_Peng](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Warren_Peng)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/15 "2021-03-08T18:25:54Z")

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How long did it take you to install? I am having exactly the same issue and it has been going on for a while by now and I did observe that there are folders created under ~.julia\registries from A to Z.

Update: It finished after 20 min.

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**Author:** ![neophytedave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/neophytedave/32/202273_2.png) [@neophytedave](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/neophytedave)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-installing-registries-and-ijulia-with-julia-v1-5-2-in-windows-10-64-bit/49025/16 "2021-03-08T20:35:26Z")

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This may or may not be relevant. If working from the REPL, does attempting to install packages activate the powershell? I have had this problem for some time, and have given up trying to install any packages.