# Offline package installation

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offline-package-installation/7880>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [December 20, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offline-package-installation/7880 "2017-12-20T15:41:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![alea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@alea](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alea)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 7:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offline-package-installation/7880/6 "2018-04-07T07:43:42Z")

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The competitions use a special bootable key, so yes, offline installation is mandatory.  
The guy which organizes it is not employed as a system administrator, he is a teacher whose work in this task is mainly pro bono.  
So, basically, if I can tell him just apt-get install julia julia-packages, the answer will probably be yes, but I can not ask him to plunge into the details of a software he has probably never used.

This post seems also related to these problems

> [@System wide Pkg installation](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/system-wide-pkg-installation/1402):
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> Is there a way to install packages system wide alongside those added by users without duplication? I’d really like to be able to install (and precompile) a selection of commonly used packages in a system wide directory, then have users add only the packages they need without duplication. Whatever I’ve tried so far, Pkg.add (run by the user), resolves to a large tree of dependencies, most or all of which are already installed (system wide). When installing the system packages, I’m setting JULIA…

Perhaps I have to wait Pkg3

> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/Juleps/blob/master/Pkg3.md>

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