# Proxy woes

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/proxy-woes/34441>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [February 10, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/proxy-woes/34441 "2020-02-10T23:33:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![philipp\_polterauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/philipp_polterauer/32/11393_2.png) [@philipp\_polterauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/philipp_polterauer)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 7:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/proxy-woes/34441/2 "2020-02-11T07:32:49Z")

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Hello,

I ran into similar issues, you might want to check out the following explanation.

> [@Cannot add certain packages (proxy error)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-certain-packages-proxy-error/29940):
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> I keep getting an error when installing some packages on my work computer. I have successfully installed e.g. DataFrames and JSON packages, but have failed to install e.g. IJulia or Distributions. I am running Windows 10 Enterprise, system architecture is x86\_64-w64-mingw32, I don’t have admin privileges, Julia version is 1.2.0. The package manager gets successfully past the “Updating” and “Installation” steps but for some (not all) packages fails during the “Building” step. Below I am repro…

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