# Trouble with new local package
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** question, package
**Created:** [May 16, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956 "2023-05-16T20:58:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@frylock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/frylock)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/1 "2023-05-16T20:58:07Z")
I am mostly familiar with Python’s packaging … but I am trying to start a new package for my application. Surely I am getting something wrong.
````julia
_
_ _ _(_)_ | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
(_) | (_) (_) |
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
| | | | | | |/ _` | |
| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 1.9.0 (2023-05-07)
_/ |\ __'_|_|_|\__'_| |
|__/ |
(@v1.9) pkg> generate Stuff
Generating project Stuff:
Stuff/Project.toml
Stuff/src/Stuff.jl
(@v1.9) pkg> activate Stuff/
Activating project at `~/Projects/Julia/Stuff`
(Stuff) pkg> status
Project Stuff v0.1.0
Status `~/Projects/Julia/Stuff/Project.toml` (empty project)
(Stuff) pkg> add FFTW
Resolving package versions...
ERROR: cannot find name corresponding to UUID a63ad114-7e13-5084-954f-fe012c677804 in a registry
(Stuff) pkg> add NetCDF
Resolving package versions...
ERROR: cannot find name corresponding to UUID a63ad114-7e13-5084-954f-fe012c677804 in a registry
(Stuff) pkg>```
````
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### Author:  [@frylock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/frylock)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/2 "2023-05-16T21:02:18Z")
I deleted `~/.julia` and the `Stuff` folder … restarted Julia, re-generated the `Stuff` project and got the same error:
```julia
(Stuff) pkg> add FFTW
Resolving package versions...
ERROR: cannot find name corresponding to UUID a63ad114-7e13-5084-954f-fe012c677804 in a registry
```
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### Author:  [@mbaz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbaz)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/3 "2023-05-16T21:11:41Z")
I don’t know if this is related, but this is the banner I get when I start Julia:
```julia-repl
_
_ _ _(_)_ | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
(_) | (_) (_) |
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
| | | | | | |/ _` | |
| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 1.9.0 (2023-05-07)
_/ |\ __'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/ |
```
Yours is missing the “Offical release” note at the bottom.
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### Author:  [@frylock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/frylock)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/4 "2023-05-16T21:13:51Z")
Ah, I `git clone`d the repo, then `git checkout v1.9.0` … if that makes a difference.
After that I just ran `make -j4` in the directory …
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### Author:  [@tim.holy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tim.holy)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/5 "2023-05-16T21:16:25Z")
Maybe `pkg> instantiate`? Perhaps you never downloaded the General registry?
Also, PkgTemplates.jl is _highly_ recommended for anything you intend to share with others. It sets up all the CI/documentation skeleton/etc for you, and is part of what contributes to that impression I’ve heard from many Python programmers, “wow, Julia packages are so consistent in their structure!”
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### Author:  [@frylock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/frylock)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/6 "2023-05-16T21:18:16Z")
would `pkg> update` download everything, or must it be `pkg> instantiate`?
Ok, clearly from the documentation, `instantiate` does the downloading (I didn’t do that). Must I do that in the “root” environment, or just ignore the root environment and only work on sub-environment/package things?
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### Author:  [@lmiq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lmiq)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/7 "2023-05-16T21:27:16Z")
Unless you are planning to develop Julia itself, you are taking a hard path. Just download the binary from the Julia site or install `juliaup` and install Julia with it, and things will probably work. (and the use PkgTemplates)
See: [GitHub - JuliaLang/juliaup: Julia installer and version multiplexer](https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup)
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### Author:  [@frylock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/frylock)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/8 "2023-05-16T21:38:34Z")
Juliaup sounds neat, sort of like rustup? I’ll check it out.
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### Author:  [@tim.holy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tim.holy)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 11:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/9 "2023-05-17T11:16:22Z")
It shouldn’t be this hard. Did you just try it? Once the general registry is downloaded for your depot, you should be all set (it no longer depends on the specific environment).
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### Author:  [@frylock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/frylock)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 12:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/10 "2023-05-17T12:03:57Z")
I hadn’t issued “pkg instantiate” that did the trick. I should have been more explicit, but I had marked your suggestion to issue the instantiate command as a solution.
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### Author:  [@GunnarFarneback](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GunnarFarneback)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/11 "2023-05-17T13:54:29Z")
There must be something unusual going on here. The expected result of doing those operations in an empty depot (pointing `JULIA_DEPOT_PATH` to an empty directory is effectively equivalent to deleting `.julia`) is:
```julia
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir testdepot
$ JULIA_DEPOT_PATH=/tmp/testdepot julia
_
_ _ _(_)_ | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
(_) | (_) (_) |
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
| | | | | | |/ _` | |
| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 1.9.0 (2023-05-07)
_/ |\ __'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/ |
(@v1.9) pkg> generate Stuff
Generating project Stuff:
Stuff/Project.toml
Stuff/src/Stuff.jl
(@v1.9) pkg> activate Stuff
Activating project at `/tmp/Stuff`
(Stuff) pkg> status
Installing known registries into `/tmp/testdepot`
Project Stuff v0.1.0
Status `/tmp/Stuff/Project.toml` (empty project)
(Stuff) pkg> add FFTW
Updating registry at `/tmp/testdepot/registries/General.toml`
Resolving package versions...
Installed Preferences ───── v1.4.0
[...]
```
Did you do something else before these operations?
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### Author:  [@frylock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/frylock)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-with-new-local-package/98956/12 "2023-05-17T14:11:03Z")
What you wrote is essentially what I did, but I remember it erroring out. I have some spare time to try it again fresh from the clone. I’ll `make distclean` in the git repo and delete `~/.julia` again and post back.
```bash
# previously (i.e. yesterday)
# git clone https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia.git
# git checkout v1.9.0
rm -rf ~/.julia
cd ~/opt/julia
make clean
make distclean
make -j8
julia
```
And from the Julia session
```julia
]
generate Stuff
activate Stuff
add FFTW
```
and it worked without complaint! 🤷♂️
Conclusion: yesterday was cursed somehow.
Note: I did _not_ refresh my clone from yesterday, so any changes made remotely would not be the issue either.