# Where does the Atom editor (and others) store their Julia packages?

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**Created:** [July 19, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-does-the-atom-editor-and-others-store-their-julia-packages/64894 "2021-07-19T02:08:13Z")\
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Finding stuff on Windows is a chore, and I have three different Julia installations. The basic REPL, the Jupyterlab installation, and Atom. Naturally, I’d like the same packages in all of them until I decide what to use permanently. And oh, I was thinking of VS Code, so that’s four locations. Can I just copy a package from one directory to another or is there more involved? Or are they all in one spot, and I just have to activate them with “using”?

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**Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 2:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-does-the-atom-editor-and-others-store-their-julia-packages/64894/2 "2021-07-19T02:24:30Z")

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The packages are stored in a [depot](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/constants/#Base.DEPOT_PATH). If this is left alone, then Julia run from anywhere, Atom, terminal, Jupyter, or VSCode, will store things there.

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**Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-does-the-atom-editor-and-others-store-their-julia-packages/64894/3 "2021-07-19T02:31:18Z")

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I just checked - Atom and Jupyterlab have more packages than the REPL. I think I just have too many Julias. Will I have to re-add everything if I try VS Code?

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**Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-does-the-atom-editor-and-others-store-their-julia-packages/64894/4 "2021-07-19T02:34:06Z")

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It depends how those programming tools handle environments: a separate environment may mean duplication of packages. It is usually at the cost of a minute or so and a few hundred megabytes. Acceptable to me, YMMV.

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**Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 10:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-does-the-atom-editor-and-others-store-their-julia-packages/64894/5 "2021-07-19T10:57:25Z")

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I am just guessing, but maybe you run different 1.x versions of Julia in each of these tools? **Every 1.x version of Julia has separate environment** , so be careful with that.  
Anyway, you can find where exactly is your environment located by typing `status` while in the the pkg-manager mode (type `] status`), you will see something like this

```julia
(@v1.6) pkg> status
      Status `C:\path_to_my_environment\Project.toml`
  [c52e3926] Atom v0.12.32
  [717857b8] DSP v0.7.1
  [e5e0dc1b] Juno v0.8.4
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.16.5
  [08abe8d2] PrettyTables v1.1.0

```

I can’t speak for Jupyter, but if you want to change which version of Julia in Atom are you using, you can specify the Julia binary under `Packages > Juno > Settings` in the `Julia Path` box. On Windows and with user-only installation the path should be something like `C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia-1.6.2\bin\julia.exe`. Juno uses this path to run Julia.