I am running Julia 1.6.3. I have been using Julia for the last 3-4 days. I have a little experience with Python. I am running IJulia on Jupyter notebooks. The first two days things were okay. Today, it takes a very very long time to simply add packages. My first cell is
using Pkg
Pkg.add("Plots")
This takes about 5 mins to happen. In fact, it is stuck on "Kernel starting, please wait" for a long long time anyway. Further, anytime I want to interrupt the kernel, I just get a message saying "Interrupting Kernel" but nothing really happens. The code continues to run (rather it looks like it's just frozen). I seem to need to restart the kernel and run things all over again and when I try to do that this problem just repeats.
Even simple functions take a very long time. I have already tried reinstalling both Julia and IJulia a few times. Can someone help me out?