# Renaming unregistered package

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/renaming-unregistered-package/21231>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [February 26, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/renaming-unregistered-package/21231 "2019-02-26T19:50:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![isaacsas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f6c823/32.png) [@isaacsas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/isaacsas)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/renaming-unregistered-package/21231/1 "2019-02-26T19:50:56Z")

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I’m trying to rename an unregistered package. I changed the name in my git repository (Github) as appropriate, including within the Project.toml. I removed the old package with

```julia
] rm OLDNAME

```

and then

```julia
] add NEWPACKAGE_GITHUB_ADDRESS

```

but now I’m getting the following error if I try to `dev` the new package

```julia
ERROR: The following package names could not be resolved:
 * ReactionNetworkImporter (3905eab2-f8c3-11e8-1e0c-9f35f29e76ae in manifest but not in project)
Please specify by known `name=uuid`.

```

How can I cleanly get the package renamed? Is my only option to just generate a new package with the desired name and copy the code over into it?

Thanks!

Edit: Fixed loading the package, so the issue now is just that I can’t seem to use `dev`.

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**Author:** ![isaacsas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f6c823/32.png) [@isaacsas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/isaacsas)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/renaming-unregistered-package/21231/2 "2019-02-27T00:49:02Z")

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In case someone else encounters this issue, I fixed this by just doing

```julia
dev NEWPACKAGE_GITHUB_ADDRESS

```