Can not install julia packages

Question

I just installed julia today and I tried to add the images package but it does not work. It does fetching till 100%. Then it stays on fetching for about 4 minutes with nothing happening like this:

(@v1.4) pkg> add Images
    Cloning default registries into `C:\Users\Quinten Cabo\.julia`
    Cloning registry from "https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git"
    Fetching: [========================================>]  100.0 %

And then after 4 minutes I get this error:

    Cloning default registries into `C:\Users\Quinten Cabo\.julia`
    Cloning registry from "https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git"
ERROR: SystemError: opening file "C:\\Users\\Quinten Cabo\\.julia\\registries\\General\\Registry.toml": No such file or directory
Stacktrace:
 [1] systemerror(::String, ::Int32; extrainfo::Nothing) at .\error.jl:168
 [2] #systemerror#50 at .\error.jl:167 [inlined]
 [3] systemerror at .\error.jl:167 [inlined]
 [4] open(::String; read::Bool, write::Nothing, create::Nothing, truncate::Nothing, append::Nothing) at .\iostream.jl:254
 [5] open(::String, ::String) at .\iostream.jl:310
 [6] open(::typeof(Pkg.TOML.parse), ::String, ::Vararg{String,N} where N; kwargs::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{},Union{},Tuple{},NamedTuple{(),Tuple{}}}) at .\io.jl:296
 [7] open at .\io.jl:296 [inlined]
 [8] parsefile at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\ext\TOML\src\TOML.jl:50 [inlined]
 [9] read_registry(::String; cache::Bool) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\Types.jl:974
 [10] read_registry at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\Types.jl:969 [inlined]
 [11] (::Pkg.Types.var"#92#95"{Pkg.Types.Context,String,Pkg.Types.RegistrySpec})(::String) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\Types.jl:946
 [12] mktempdir(::Pkg.Types.var"#92#95"{Pkg.Types.Context,String,Pkg.Types.RegistrySpec}, ::String; prefix::String) at .\file.jl:682
 [13] mktempdir at .\file.jl:680 [inlined] (repeats 2 times)
 [14] clone_or_cp_registries(::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{Pkg.Types.RegistrySpec,1}, ::String) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\Types.jl:911
 [15] clone_or_cp_registries at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\Types.jl:902 [inlined] (repeats 2 times)
 [16] clone_default_registries(::Pkg.Types.Context) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\Types.jl:821
 [17] find_registered!(::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{String,1}, ::Array{Base.UUID,1}) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\Types.jl:1167
 [18] registry_resolve!(::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\Types.jl:727
 [19] add(::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}; preserve::Pkg.Types.PreserveLevel, platform::Pkg.BinaryPlatforms.Windows, kwargs::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{},Union{},Tuple{},NamedTuple{(),Tuple{}}}) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\API.jl:146
 [20] add(::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\API.jl:112
 [21] #add#27 at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\API.jl:109 [inlined]
 [22] add(::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\API.jl:109
 [23] do_cmd!(::Pkg.REPLMode.Command, ::REPL.LineEditREPL) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\REPLMode\REPLMode.jl:403
 [24] do_cmd(::REPL.LineEditREPL, ::String; do_rethrow::Bool) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\REPLMode\REPLMode.jl:381
 [25] do_cmd at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\REPLMode\REPLMode.jl:376 [inlined]
 [26] (::Pkg.REPLMode.var"#24#27"{REPL.LineEditREPL,REPL.LineEdit.Prompt})(::REPL.LineEdit.MIState, ::Base.GenericIOBuffer{Array{UInt8,1}}, ::Bool) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\REPLMode\REPLMode.jl:542
 [27] #invokelatest#1 at .\essentials.jl:712 [inlined]
 [28] invokelatest at .\essentials.jl:711 [inlined]
 [29] run_interface(::REPL.Terminals.TextTerminal, ::REPL.LineEdit.ModalInterface, ::REPL.LineEdit.MIState) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\REPL\src\LineEdit.jl:2354
 [30] run_frontend(::REPL.LineEditREPL, ::REPL.REPLBackendRef) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\REPL\src\REPL.jl:1055
 [31] run_repl(::REPL.AbstractREPL, ::Any) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\REPL\src\REPL.jl:206
 [32] (::Base.var"#764#766"{Bool,Bool,Bool,Bool})(::Module) at .\client.jl:383
 [33] #invokelatest#1 at .\essentials.jl:712 [inlined]
 [34] invokelatest at .\essentials.jl:711 [inlined]
 [35] run_main_repl(::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool) at .\client.jl:367
 [36] exec_options(::Base.JLOptions) at .\client.jl:305
 [37] _start() at .\client.jl:484

Does anyone know what I should do here to be able to install packages?

Answer 1

Windows seems to have problem cloning the registry sometimes. You can try to delete C:\Users\Quinten Cabo\.julia\registries\General and try again, or (perhaps even better) you could simply git clone the registry outside of Julia to that location.

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In the upcoming Julia 1.5 registries will not use git by default, so hopefully this issue should not be present then.

Answer 2

I Deleted the.julia\registries\General and then re installed the Package and it worked. So It built the registry again.

It takes a bit of time to rebuild. Have patience.