On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Yichao Yu <yyc1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 2:39 PM, <varun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, I'm not sure if anyone else has this problem but apparently, after >> updating to v0.5, I can no longer find the packages that I had previously > > This is expected since packages might use different code on different > julia versions and simply copying the code can cause subtle breakage. > >> installed in v0.4. The console says, argumenterror: Module Statsbase not >> found in current path. I tried Pkg.status in my pwd and it didn't show any >> of the previous packages that I had installed. Am I doing something wrong >> here? How do I install all the packages I previously had? > > You can copy the old REQUIRE to the new location and run > `Pkg.update()`. The REQUIRE file, which record the packages you > explicitly installed is located in the `Pkg.dir()` of the > corresponding version.
Of course this doesn't handle the packages you have locally or packages that are deprecated/removed/not supported anymore in the new version and that has to be handled in a case-by-case basis and you should be able to find instructions for deprecated packages in their readme.
