# Can't install GDS on Neo4j community **URL:** \ **Category:** Graph Data Science / Graph Analytics\ **Created:** [July 8, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/cant-install-gds-on-neo4j-community/41103 "2021-07-08T23:32:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ndfmfexju](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/ndfmfexju/32/19120_2.png) [@ndfmfexju](https://community.neo4j.com/u/ndfmfexju)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/cant-install-gds-on-neo4j-community/41103/1 "2021-07-08T23:32:20Z")
Hi I'm new to neo4j and have been playing around with the community version for a while. Creating queries, adding visualizing data and importing from csv works fine. When I try to add Graph Data Science library according to the guide, however, I get an error and the server does not start. I downloaded the jar file from here [https://neo4j.com/download-center/#algorithms](https://neo4j.com/download-center/#algorithms), put it in the plugin folder, added the two lines dbms.security.procedures.unrestricted=gds.\* dbms.security.procedures.allowlist=gds.\* in /conf/neo4j.conf and started the folder. I got the following error messages: 2021-07-06 23:22:37.530+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.CompositeNodeCursor40` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: class org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.CompositeNodeCursor40 overrides final method org.neo4j.internal.kernel.api.DefaultCloseListenable.close()V 2021-07-06 23:22:37.530+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.CompatGraphDatabaseAPI40` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: org/neo4j/kernel/impl/factory/DatabaseInfo 2021-07-06 23:22:37.534+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.Neo4jProxy40` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: class org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.CompositeNodeCursor40 overrides final method org.neo4j.internal.kernel.api.DefaultCloseListenable.close()V 2021-07-06 23:22:37.538+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.Neo4jProxy41` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: class org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.CompositeNodeCursor41 overrides final method org.neo4j.internal.kernel.api.DefaultCloseListenable.close()V 2021-07-06 23:22:37.542+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.CompositeNodeCursor41` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: class org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.CompositeNodeCursor41 overrides final method org.neo4j.internal.kernel.api.DefaultCloseListenable.close()V 2021-07-06 23:22:37.558+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.Neo4jProxy43$1` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: org/neo4j/internal/batchimport/IndexConfig 2021-07-06 23:22:37.566+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.CompatAccessMode43` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: org/neo4j/internal/kernel/api/RelTypeSupplier 2021-07-06 23:22:37.566+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.graphalgo.compat.Neo4jProxy43` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: org/neo4j/internal/batchimport/IndexImporterFactory 2021-07-06 23:22:47.250+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.gds.shaded.com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ext.DOMDeserializer$DocumentDeserializer` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: org/neo4j/gds/shaded/org/w3c/dom/Document 2021-07-06 23:22:47.254+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.gds.shaded.com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ext.DOMDeserializer$NodeDeserializer` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: org/neo4j/gds/shaded/org/w3c/dom/Node 2021-07-06 23:22:47.254+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.gds.shaded.com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ext.DOMDeserializer` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: org/neo4j/gds/shaded/org/w3c/dom/Document 2021-07-06 23:22:47.254+0000 WARN [o.n.k.a.p.GlobalProcedures] Failed to load `org.neo4j.gds.shaded.com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ext.DOMSerializer` from plugin jar `/C:/neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows/neo4j-community-4.2.7/plugins/neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1.jar`: org/neo4j/gds/shaded/org/w3c/dom/Node neo4j version: neo4j-community-4.2.7-windows Graph Data Science version: neo4j-graph-data-science-1.6.1 Is GDS not availible for community, or did I miss anything during the installation? Thank you for any help. ---
**Author:** ![Joel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/joel/32/17191_2.png) [@Joel](https://community.neo4j.com/u/Joel)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/cant-install-gds-on-neo4j-community/41103/2 "2021-07-09T17:11:10Z")
I've not setup neo4j on windows like you are doing (normally I run neo4j inside docker on ubuntu, or for quick simple work maybe the neo4j client), but have a couple of questions - I had a visceral negative gut reaction to the leading slash in the path shown /C:/neo4j-.... Are you configuring the plugin names somewhere, and is that the correct format? It doesn't look right at a glance. Maybe neo4j likes that format, but I can't recall ever seeing a windows path that way. I have seen both /c/path and c:\path though. - if you remove GDS do the other plug-ins load OK? Compare the config/paths between them, anything curiously different? can you share the rest of the config file and how you are starting/running neo4j? ---
**Author:** ![ndfmfexju](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/ndfmfexju/32/19120_2.png) [@ndfmfexju](https://community.neo4j.com/u/ndfmfexju)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/cant-install-gds-on-neo4j-community/41103/3 "2021-07-10T10:23:12Z")
I didn't configure the path anywhere explicitly, but just added the plugin in the plugins folder as described in the instructions. The extra forward slash at the beginning seems to be something the debug logs adds by itself. The whole pathname is enclosed in backticks as well, but it seems the forum here formats them and makes the text yellow instead. I never tried with any other plugins. Will try looking up another one and add them.