# Quiet Pkg Installation/Precompilation

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quiet-pkg-installation-precompilation/53796>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, package\
**Created:** [January 22, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quiet-pkg-installation-precompilation/53796 "2021-01-22T18:46:50Z")\
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You should be able to set `io=devnull` in the main Pkg functions to suppress output

```julia
julia> import Pkg

julia> Pkg.add("Foo”, io=devnull)

```

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