Tip: No Internet connection?¶
Here’s what to do in case you need to run one of the tools on a computer not having Internet connectivity.
There are two ways to grab the needed pip installer packages, depending on whether there is a local Python 3 installation available. In both cases, you’ll use a different computer that has Internet access to dowload the packages.
Warning
You might have both Python 2 and Python 3 installed on your machine!
Make sure you use the correct pip
command:
Run
pip --version
to check that you have the Python 3 version in use. In case it shows Python 2, replacepip
withpip3
in the following steps.
Without Python 3 installed locally:
Visit the Python Package Index,
use the search function to locate the required packages and their pre-requisites (!), then
download them, one by one. Make sure you download the latest versions, please!
With a Python >= 3.4.3 installation available:
Make sure you have setuptools and pip updated to the latest release:
$ pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir setuptools pip
Download the required packages:
$ pip download --no-cache-dir <hcp_tool>
Example:
$ pip download --no-cache-dir hcpcbc Collecting hcpcbc Downloading hcpcbc-2.1.4.tar.gz Saved ./hcpcbc-2.1.4.tar.gz Collecting hcpsdk>=0.9.4.post0 (from hcpcbc) Downloading hcpsdk-0.9.4.post1.tar.gz Saved ./hcpsdk-0.9.4.post1.tar.gz Collecting XlsxWriter>=0.7.7 (from hcpcbc) Downloading XlsxWriter-0.8.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (134kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 135kB 2.1MB/s Saved ./XlsxWriter-0.8.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting dnspython3==1.12.0 (from hcpsdk>=0.9.4.post0->hcpcbc) Downloading dnspython3-1.12.0.zip (226kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 229kB 1.8MB/s Saved ./dnspython3-1.12.0.zip Successfully downloaded hcpcbc hcpsdk XlsxWriter dnspython3
As you see, the command downloaded all required packages (including pre-requisites):
$ ls -lh total 832 -rw-r--r-- 1 sm staff 132K Feb 12 17:43 XlsxWriter-0.8.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl -rw-r--r-- 1 sm staff 222K Feb 12 17:43 dnspython3-1.12.0.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 sm staff 21K Feb 12 17:43 hcpcbc-2.1.4.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 sm staff 35K Feb 12 17:43 hcpsdk-0.9.4.post1.tar.gz
Copy the downloaded files over to the computer without Internet connectivity and install there:
$ pip install dnspython3-1.12.0.zip \ hcpcbc-2.1.4.tar.gz \ hcpsdk-0.9.4.post1.tar.gz \ XlsxWriter-0.8.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl Processing ./dnspython3-1.12.0.zip Processing ./hcpcbc-2.1.4.tar.gz Processing ./hcpsdk-0.9.4.post1.tar.gz Processing ./XlsxWriter-0.8.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting hcpsdk>=0.9.4.post0 (from hcpcbc==2.1.4) Using cached hcpsdk-0.9.4.post1.tar.gz Installing collected packages: XlsxWriter, dnspython3, hcpsdk, hcpcbc Running setup.py install for dnspython3 ... done Running setup.py install for hcpsdk ... done Running setup.py install for hcpcbc ... done Successfully installed XlsxWriter-0.8.4 dnspython3-1.12.0 hcpcbc-2.1.4 hcpsdk-0.9.4.post1
Warning
You need to list all the downloaded packages as part of the
pip install
command.If you don’t do so, pip will try to fullfill pre-requisites not listed by calling the Python Package Index, which of course will make the whole process to fail if there’s no connection possible.