Install packages on machine not connected to internet

[giordano]

It’s similar to what had been suggested above, but this thread

Installing packages via an SSH SOCKS proxy on a compute cluster

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.