# Updating Julia from 1.6 to 1.6.1
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/updating-julia-from-1-6-to-1-6-1/59907
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** update
**Created:** [April 23, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/updating-julia-from-1-6-to-1-6-1/59907 "2021-04-23T23:06:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Rodrigo\_PY](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Rodrigo_PY)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/updating-julia-from-1-6-to-1-6-1/59907/1 "2021-04-23T23:06:12Z")
Hello,
How do I update from 1.6 to 1.6.1 without losing all the packages I already have?
I am on Linux.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@josePereiro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/josePereiro)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/updating-julia-from-1-6-to-1-6-1/59907/2 "2021-04-23T23:34:11Z")
Hi, julia can be installed (typically this means just uncompressing a file) in any location without touching anything in the user depot folder (usually at `~/.julia`). It is there where the installed packages reside, so, just relink the `julia` alias (or update your path) to point to the new julia executable (At least for patch releases this must be enough, they all share the same global environment) and the packages installed will remain unchanged.
Anyway, just for completeness, the state of the global environment is stored in the `Project.toml` and `Manifest.toml` files at the correspond depot path (`.julia/environments/v1.6/`), from those files you must be able to replicate all back again if something bad happens.
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### Author:  [@Rodrigo\_PY](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Rodrigo_PY)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/updating-julia-from-1-6-to-1-6-1/59907/3 "2021-04-23T23:44:31Z")
Thanks Jose!