# Why is juliaup emphasized as the installation mechanism?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-juliaup-emphasized-as-the-installation-mechanism/134844>\
**Category:** Tooling\
**Created:** [January 2, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-juliaup-emphasized-as-the-installation-mechanism/134844 "2026-01-02T16:49:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-juliaup-emphasized-as-the-installation-mechanism/134844/51 "2026-01-07T16:45:45Z")

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Just to remind participants this is not the first hot debate on this topic:

> [@A graphical Julia installer for Windows](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-graphical-julia-installer-for-windows/128413):
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> As Windows user I need a graphical installer where I can select at least: the Julia version I want to install the install location All larger projects I know provide a graphical installer for Windows and a way to use it without the Microsoft store. And that’s why I chose the graphical installer for Julia. I cannot understand to hear in [this thread](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-julias-development-policy-regarding-windows/128011/) that just because I need a graphical installer I made a mistake. As I wrote installers for 2 lager projects ([lyx.org](http://lyx.org) and [freecad.org](http://freecad.org)) with over t…

> [@Challenges with installing Julia on Windows](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/challenges-with-installing-julia-on-windows/128133):
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> 3 issues from my side: the most severe is that you cannot install Julia for all users of a computer. To be able to use Julia with all its features (e.g. PackageCompiler), the julia.exe must be in the PATH environment variable of Windows. By running the installer as administrator, the path to the julia.exe is not added to the system-wide PATH, but to the PATH of the admin user. Therefore any other user of the PC does not have Julia in the PATH. Sure, you can tell all other users to manually ad…

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