/offline_depot JULIA_PKG_OFFLINE=true julia
julia> using MultivariateStats # use the preinstalled packages here
```
Hope that helps.
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### Author:  [@gitboy16](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gitboy16)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/7 "2023-06-22T20:12:06Z")
Thanks but that only works if both machines are running the same operating system.
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### Author:  [@HanD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HanD)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 6:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/8 "2023-06-23T06:55:43Z")
Right, sorry, I ignored that part of the question.
I assume you connect to the Ubuntu server via ssh. If that is the case, you can set up ssh as a proxy server and use it to access the internet from the server.
```julia
windows> ssh -R8080 ubuntu-server.local # edited from: ssh -D8080 ubuntu-server.local
ubuntu$ git config --global http.proxy 'socks5://127.0.0.1:8080'
ubuntu$ export JULIA_PKG_USE_CLI_GIT=true
ubuntu$ julia
julia> ]registry up
```
I haven’t tested this, bit it should work, as long as you fetch registries and packages using HTTP.
Alternatively, you can set up WSL on your Windows machine, install Julia there, and then you are on the same platform as your server, so the depot copying solution will work.
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### Author:  [@jbrea](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jbrea)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 7:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/9 "2023-06-23T07:07:30Z")
> [@gitboy16](#):
>
> The issue is that I would like to install packages on the ubuntu server. Does anyone know how I can do that?
Maybe it works with an [ssh tunnel and port forwarding](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/116191/give-server-access-to-internet-via-client-connecting-by-ssh), but I’ve never tried this myself.
EDIT: This is essentially the same approach as the one described by @HanD above.
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### Author:  [@gitboy16](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gitboy16)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/10 "2023-06-23T12:51:07Z")
I get the following error for both @HanD and @jbrea suggestions:
```julia
(@v1.9) pkg> registry up
┌ Warning: could not download https://pkg.julialang.org/registries
│ exception = RequestError: Could not resolve host: pkg.julialang.org while requesting https://pkg.julialang.org/registries
└ @ Pkg.Registry ~/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.9/Pkg/src/Registry/Registry.jl:69
(@v1.9) pkg> add DataFrames
Installing known registries into `~/.julia`
┌ Warning: could not download https://pkg.julialang.org/registries
│ exception = RequestError: Could not resolve host: pkg.julialang.org while requesting https://pkg.julialang.org/registries
└ @ Pkg.Registry ~/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.9/Pkg/src/Registry/Registry.jl:69
┌ Warning: could not download https://pkg.julialang.org/registries
│ exception = RequestError: Could not resolve host: pkg.julialang.org while requesting https://pkg.julialang.org/registries
└ @ Pkg.Registry ~/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.9/Pkg/src/Registry/Registry.jl:69
Cloning registry from "https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git"
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git/': Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8080: Connection refused
```
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### Author:  [@HanD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HanD)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/11 "2023-06-23T12:55:16Z")
My bad, `-D` proxies _local_ connections to the remote server, you need the opposite, proxy remote connections to the local machine with `-R`. So the correct ssh command would look like this:
```julia
$ ssh -R8080 ubuntu-server.local
```
I now tested this in my own local environment, and it seems to do the trick.
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### Author:  [@gitboy16](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gitboy16)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/12 "2023-06-23T13:06:23Z")
When I run this on the windows machine I get:
```julia
Warning: remote port forwarding failed for listen port 8080
```
Then it asks me for my password, which I enter and then connect. When I try to install a package I still get the same error `Connection refused`
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### Author:  [@gitboy16](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gitboy16)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/13 "2023-06-23T13:26:33Z")
I think the issue is port forwardimg is not allowed. In the following file on the ubuntu machine: `/etc/ssh/sshd_config` I found that `AllowTcpForwarding no` and I am not going to change that file otherwise I will really get my head chopped off… Is that something you can test on your side if you set that variable? Thank you
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### Author:  [@frylock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/frylock)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/14 "2023-06-23T13:38:37Z")
Doesn’t solve the `Connection Refused` problem, but you can eliminate the password login by setting up PKI for SSH:
> **[How to Setup Passwordless SSH Login](https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-setup-passwordless-ssh-login/)**
>
> In this article we will show you how to setup an SSH key-based authentication and connect to your Linux servers without a entering password.
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### Author:  [@jbrea](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jbrea)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/15 "2023-06-23T13:39:33Z")
Maybe [this](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/406695/how-to-ssh-forwarding-with-allowtcpforwarding-set-to-no) helps?
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/16 "2023-06-23T14:12:16Z")
It’s similar to what had been suggested above, but this thread
> [@Installing packages via an SSH SOCKS proxy on a compute cluster](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-packages-via-an-ssh-socks-proxy-on-a-compute-cluster/71735):
>
> I have spent the better part of a day figuring this out, so I thought it might be interesting to share for others: In my case, I would like to run Julia on a university cluster with very restricted internet access from inside. That is, most websites and services are not directly reachable from the login nodes (I am not even talking about the compute nodes). This makes it impossible to, e.g., just run Julia and install packages using Pkg, since the package servers and other locations are not ava…
has been around for about a couple of years.
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### Author:  [@HanD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HanD)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/17 "2023-06-23T15:38:04Z")
The 8080 port is probably taken by some other process. You can use any number between 1024 and 65535. Just make sure to use the same number in the git config.
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/18 "2023-06-23T18:23:41Z")
But why git? Registered packages aren’t installed via git.
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### Author:  [@gitboy16](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gitboy16)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/19 "2023-06-23T21:17:51Z")
I have checked with `netstat` and the port is not used. I have tried with various other port and I get the same error.
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### Author:  [@gitboy16](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gitboy16)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-packages-on-machine-not-connected-to-internet/100650/20 "2023-06-23T21:19:14Z")
Thanks but I am a bit struggling with the exact steps.
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