How to Perfom Offline Installation of Knime Extensions?

I am having issues with installing the “Knime AI Extension” under the KNIME Lab Extensions due to my corporate environment.

I read this post: offline installation of extensions

The easiest solution is to:

  1. Install KNIME and all the plugins you need in a different computer (with same OS) which has on-line internet connexion,
  2. Zip the KNIME installed folder using for instance the 7-zip file archiver,
  3. Copy the zipped file into the machine that is offline and then unzip the archive file with the same 7-zip utility.

The copied KNIME version should be compatible with your new machine and work as if it was installed on-line on the off-line machine.

Can someone point me to where to locate where is the “Zip the KNIME installed folder” this member is sharing about?

@bluecar007 this is the path where your KNIME software is installed. On Windows this often is:

C:\Program Files\KNIME

You can check by running the Extract System Properties node the value:

eclipse.home.location

You can just zip this whole folder and unzip it at the target.

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i did a quick check on that folder its like 6GB in size. quite large to move over to my other target machine.

Anyone knows which particular folder is the “Knime AI Extension” under the KNIME Lab Extensions stored under “C:\Program Files\KNIME” maybe if i just zip those folders it will be a smaller file to move over.

@bluecar007 with 7zip or other tools you can split the compressed file into chunks of 500 MB or 1 GB. This can help to transfer the data to another system.

Also if you want to try the KNIME_PYTHON_PACKAGE_REPO_URL thing again for offline installations you can check the relevant passage in this article

GPT4All Installation behind a Firewall

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