On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 3:43 PM,  <varun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It worked. Thanks for your advice. Another thing, I observed the previous
> version v0.4 folder on the disk. Is there a way to delete it and free up
> some space?

Well, just delete it and free up the space? A newer version of julia
will not delete the data for the older version because you can use
multiple versions simultaneously.

>
> On Saturday, 8 October 2016 20:43:57 UTC+2, Yichao Yu wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Yichao Yu <yyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 2:39 PM,  <varu...@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.

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