# Building Julia Offline

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-julia-offline/9252>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [February 22, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-julia-offline/9252 "2018-02-22T13:32:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![JaredCrean2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jaredcrean2/32/3574_2.png) [@JaredCrean2](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JaredCrean2)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-julia-offline/9252/4 "2018-02-22T16:26:10Z")

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I ran into the same problem on julia 0.7. The workaround in that case was to

1. build julia 0.7 on some other machine (with access to the internet)
2. copy the `_build` directory to the non-networked machine,
3. run `touch doc/_build/html/en/index.html`.
4. run `make install`

This tricked `make install` into thinking the documentation was already up-to-date, so it doesn’t try to rebuild it, and therefore downloading packages.

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