# Unable to add packages in v1.2

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-add-packages-in-v1-2/27857>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [August 22, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-add-packages-in-v1-2/27857 "2019-08-22T16:22:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![abelsiqueira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/abelsiqueira/32/47269_2.png) [@abelsiqueira](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/abelsiqueira)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-add-packages-in-v1-2/27857/4 "2019-08-22T17:39:14Z")

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I haven’t used pacman’s Julia in a long time, but it makes sense that it should work.  
I use [JILL](https://github.com/abelsiqueira/jill) (disclaimer: package author), which downloads from the website and unpacks in good places. But you should uninstall first.

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