# Can't add Syphon library through library manager
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/cant-add-syphon-library-through-library-manager/3369
**Category:** Beginners
**Created:** [September 8, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/cant-add-syphon-library-through-library-manager/3369 "2018-09-08T15:28:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@jhow](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jhow)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/cant-add-syphon-library-through-library-manager/3369/1 "2018-09-08T15:28:49Z")
Hi there,
I apologize in advance if my information is not specific enough. I am unable to import the Syphon library into Processing v2.2.1 through the Library Manager. I’ve attached screencaps of the error I receive. How can I resolve this and add the library? I have to use v2.2.1 for my current project.
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### Author:  [@GoToLoop](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GoToLoop)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/cant-add-syphon-library-through-library-manager/3369/2 "2018-09-08T17:23:44Z")
1. [Forum.Processing.org/two/discussion/17722/error-opening-processing-was-using-3-and-tried-to-install-2-now-none-of-them-open](http://Forum.Processing.org/two/discussion/17722/error-opening-processing-was-using-3-and-tried-to-install-2-now-none-of-them-open)
2. [Forum.Processing.org/two/discussion/26894/processing-1-5-will-no-longer-open-on-my-computer-and-p3-won-t-run-generative-gestaltung-code](http://Forum.Processing.org/two/discussion/26894/processing-1-5-will-no-longer-open-on-my-computer-and-p3-won-t-run-generative-gestaltung-code)
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### Author:  [@jb4x](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jb4x)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/cant-add-syphon-library-through-library-manager/3369/3 "2018-09-08T19:23:34Z")
Hi jhow,
On the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/Syphon/Processing) of the library, it is written the following:
> Syphon library for Processing 2.0 and up. Note that latest revision on master is compatible with 3.0 only. Use the [v2 branch](https://github.com/Syphon/Processing/tree/v2) for the last version compatible with 2.0.
I guess that you need to manually install the proper version of the library so it can be compatible with your version of processing.
Here a link to help you with that: [How to Install a Contributed Library · processing/processing Wiki · GitHub](https://github.com/processing/processing/wiki/How-to-Install-a-Contributed-Library)
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### Author:  [@jhow](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jhow)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/cant-add-syphon-library-through-library-manager/3369/4 "2018-09-09T13:38:45Z")
Thanks for your reply! When I try to download the 2.0 version of the library, I am unable to manually add it to my libraries folder (~/Documents/Processing/libraries/), I suspect because the folder structure is incorrect. Also, there is nothing even in the “Java” folder in the download from GitHub. Is this why I am getting the Java alerts? And how should I be structuring my folders to actually manually add the library? I’ve attached a screen shot of what the unzipped file looks like from GitHub.
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### Author:  [@jhow](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jhow)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/cant-add-syphon-library-through-library-manager/3369/5 "2018-09-09T13:39:16Z")
Another pic
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### Author:  [@jb4x](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jb4x)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/cant-add-syphon-library-through-library-manager/3369/6 "2018-09-12T05:46:59Z")
Hi jhow,
Sorry for the delay…
Did you solve your problem? It seems that your are not in the correct folder. I’m not on mac but I think it should be the same than on windows.
You Processing folder should be called “Processing” and not “Processing\_2\_0”. It is not where processing is installed, it’s a folder created by processing in you documents folder.
My documents/Processing folder looks like this:
And in the libraries folder I have all my labraries installed:
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### Author:  [@bangnoise](https://discourse.processing.org/u/bangnoise)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/cant-add-syphon-library-through-library-manager/3369/7 "2019-12-30T23:59:49Z")
Hopefully this is resolved, but in case anyone else is in this situation - the latest version of Syphon for Processing 2 can be downloaded here:
[https://github.com/Syphon/Processing/releases/download/latestv2/Syphon.zip](https://github.com/Syphon/Processing/releases/download/latestv2/Syphon.zip)
Unzip it and install it to ~/Documents/Processing/libraries