# System wide Pkg installation

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/system-wide-pkg-installation/1402>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package\
**Created:** [January 10, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/system-wide-pkg-installation/1402 "2017-01-10T18:32:30Z")\
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@johnh I am using environment modules to manage loading Julia itself (and other binary dependencies), but I haven’t found any way of making it interact with the Julia package manager. What I would really like is if JULIA\_PKGDIR became JULIA\_PKGPATH, allowing multiple directories to be searched in a defined order. It would also be good if there was some environmental variable that corresponds to LOAD\_PATH, but I don’t know of one.

@ianabc Could you have a login script symlink everything in the system package directory into the users package directory?

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