Searching for and adding packages

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**Question:**I went to search for a package to install by clicking on the Package icon on the sidebar in the workspace. The packages window opened and noted " You don’t have any packages installed. Try searching for a package to install, or learn more about packages here." Yet, I do have numerous packages installed. Also, I submitted a search in the prompt for other packages and I get the following response: " No packages found". I also do not see the "“Add Package” icon noted at (https://docs.replit.com/programming-ide/installing-packages). Any suggestions?

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AFAIK the package manager only counts packages you’ve installed with it.

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I restarted the repl and opened the packages manager. It does say I have packages installed. However, I cannot find the “Add Package” button and instead of using the shell to pip install packages, I would like to use the Replit systems so that it is in my packages manager. Any suggestions?

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I highly recommend you just use the Shell. Replit’s package manager can be buggy.

Can you send a screenshot?

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I’d recommend you use poetry, as it’s one command to update all packages, and I generally find it easier to use.

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Thanks! still new to coding and replit. So, I went to the pyproject.toml and noted under [tool.poetry.dependencies] the version of the package. I updated the individual package using the shell, again, which worked for the individual package. However, I cannot find explanation of how to update all packages as you noted. Can you point me to any instructions on how to do so?

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You should just be able to run poetry update in the Shell tab, and it update your packages if possible. (Note that poetry’s “install” command is poetry add xyz)

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