# VSCode extension julia terminal not loading/adding \`LocalRegistry\` and private registries

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-extension-julia-terminal-not-loading-adding-localregistry-and-private-registries/125482>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, vscode, registry\
**Created:** [February 2, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-extension-julia-terminal-not-loading-adding-localregistry-and-private-registries/125482 "2025-02-02T20:20:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![00krishna](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/00krishna/32/8843_2.png) [@00krishna](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/00krishna)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-extension-julia-terminal-not-loading-adding-localregistry-and-private-registries/125482/1 "2025-02-02T20:20:41Z")

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I had to rebuild my computer OS recently. I run ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I reinstalled julia and vscode, but for some reason I am having trouble with julia registries.

So I use `LocalRegistry` for tracking development registries as well as the Juliahub registries. In my `startup.jl` script these registries get installed just fine. I believe that the `LocalRegistry` package says that the user just has to run the LocalRegistry command one time, and that is it. However, I find that when I load Visual Studio and click` Ctrl+Enter` to run a line of code inline, that the launched julia environment does not list the additional registries that I added. I am then getting errors in the repl about expecting packages to be registered, etc. But when I run `registry status` in the pkg prompt, I don’t see the registries that I added in the main julia environment, as I would in the past.

I have my `JULIA_DEPOT_PATH` variable set to point to the `.julia` folder that i moved to a different drive. When I try to run something like `include("/drives/mydrive/.julia/config/startup.jl")` then I still end up getting error messages about packages not being registered, so it seems like the lack of registries corrupts the whole repl. Not sure how to fix this. Do I need to manually add a flag to the launch configuration? Or is there something simple that I am missing?

Note that if I start `julia` from a VSCode terminal “New Terminal” and then manually start my project environment using `julia --project=.`, then the registries show up. So again it has something to do with the `startup.jl` file not being loaded when I hit `Ctrl+Enter`. How would I fix that.

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**Author:** ![xgdgsc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/xgdgsc/32/608_2.png) [@xgdgsc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xgdgsc)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-extension-julia-terminal-not-loading-adding-localregistry-and-private-registries/125482/2 "2025-02-03T01:24:55Z")

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Try install LocalRegistry to the global env instead of the project env.

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**Author:** ![GunnarFarneback](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gunnarfarneback/32/1827_2.png) [@GunnarFarneback](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GunnarFarneback)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-extension-julia-terminal-not-loading-adding-localregistry-and-private-registries/125482/3 "2025-02-03T08:42:03Z")

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For what it’s worth this has nothing to do with LocalRegistry but everything to do with the registry functionality of the package manager. Also the registry management is not per environment but global in the depot, so I would suspect that something goes awry with your `JULIA_DEPOT_PATH`.

Addendum: Calling the internal function `Pkg.depots1()` might help you diagnose if the depot that Pkg actually uses matches your expectations.

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**Author:** ![00krishna](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/00krishna/32/8843_2.png) [@00krishna](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/00krishna)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-extension-julia-terminal-not-loading-adding-localregistry-and-private-registries/125482/4 "2025-02-03T18:29:42Z")

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@xgdgsc thank for the comment. I did install LocalRegistry in the global environment. I don’t have LocalRegistry in my project environment right now. Should I add LocalRegistry to my project environment as well? I thought I did not need to do that.