# Yellow Question Marks When Precompiling

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yellow-question-marks-when-precompiling/115453>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, package\
**Created:** [June 11, 2024, 3:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yellow-question-marks-when-precompiling/115453 "2024-06-11T03:48:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Cyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@Cyan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Cyan)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 3:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yellow-question-marks-when-precompiling/115453/1 "2024-06-11T03:48:01Z")

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Why there are a lot of yellow question marks show up during precompiling when I download new packages? I can using new packages normally. Perhaps someone can point me how to solve it?

 ![Screenshot 2024-06-11 at 12.43.45](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/5/257aada6837c5a89f468bb6634eaf3de6b937b94.png)

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**Author:** ![savq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/savq/32/22063_2.png) [@savq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/savq)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yellow-question-marks-when-precompiling/115453/2 "2024-06-11T22:15:12Z")

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Your terminal emulator’s font might be missing the unicode half black circles that are used by pkg.jl here. The characters should be:

```julia-repl
julia> collect('\u25D0':'\u25D3')
4-element Vector{Char}:
 '◐': Unicode U+25D0 (category So: Symbol, other)
 '◑': Unicode U+25D1 (category So: Symbol, other)
 '◒': Unicode U+25D2 (category So: Symbol, other)
 '◓': Unicode U+25D3 (category So: Symbol, other)

```

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**Author:** ![Devansh1106](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/devansh1106/32/207983_2.png) [@Devansh1106](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Devansh1106)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 9:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yellow-question-marks-when-precompiling/115453/3 "2024-06-12T09:43:01Z")

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_Not an answer_  
Please use `code block` instead of screenshots.  
Kindly read [this](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/please-read-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757) post for asking questions the `julia` way.  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![kimikage](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kimikage/32/14534_2.png) [@kimikage](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kimikage)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yellow-question-marks-when-precompiling/115453/4 "2024-06-12T10:03:55Z")

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I see this as an appropriate use case of screenshot.

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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 11:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yellow-question-marks-when-precompiling/115453/6 "2024-06-12T11:06:22Z")

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This also happens here. Maybe this issue is more common than expected?

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**Author:** ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 11:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yellow-question-marks-when-precompiling/115453/7 "2024-06-12T11:28:26Z")

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Although it has the `⌅` character … 🤔

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yellow-question-marks-when-precompiling/115453/8 "2024-06-12T12:17:55Z")

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See [https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/3903](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/3903) which adds documentation about the various symbols.

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**Author:** ![Cyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@Cyan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Cyan)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 4:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/yellow-question-marks-when-precompiling/115453/9 "2024-06-13T04:49:20Z")

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The code block of the image is here:

```julia
julia> using ImageTransformations
Package ImageTransformations not found, but a package named ImageTransformations is available from a registry. 
Install package?

(@1.10) pkg> add ImageTransformations
(y/n/o) [y]: y
Updating registry at "~/-julia/registries/General.toml
Resolving
package versions...
Updating
*~/-julia/environments/v1.10/Project.toml'
^ [02fcd773] + ImageTransformations v0.9.5
No Changes to '~/-julia/environments/v1.10/Manifest.toml
Precompiling project...
Progress [===] 43/64
? DomainSets 
? LayoutPointers 
? SparseDiffTools
? AccessorsExtra 
? StrideArraysCore 
? VectorizationBase
? AccessorsExtra → DistributionsExt

```