Install new nodes in NodeRed without internet connection

General
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Good afternoon everyone!
I have an environment with NodeRed and I need to install the packages: node-red-contrib-opcua and node-red-contrib-s7.

Is it possible to add these modules in the environment without internet? as I can't access manage pallete.
I would need help and know how to do this.

Regards

Tadeo

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I don't know ho to do this manually with the files, like from a local drive/USB.
But assuming that the host node-red is running on has some kind of networking capabilities, the easier method would be to bring (mobile) internet to the site for the time you do the install....use a mobile phone as Wifi-hotspot maybe?

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You can load individual .tgz (i.e. package archives) into Node-RED using the upload button in the install tab of the palette manager:

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You might or might not have this feature depending on your installation (e.g. FlowFuse community edition does not have this feature).

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Thanks for both!
The server where NodeRed is running does not have Internet access (for security reasons), so it could not perform this task.
But I can upload package! Now my question is if this type of node (node-red-contrib-s7) I can install only the first package or I have to install all the ones that are appearing in node_modules.

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Thank you!
BR

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you can get the .tgz for any packages by first looking at https://registry.npmjs.org/node-red-contrib-s7

That gives you a .json and somewhere under versions:

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you can the .tgz file for your package.

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Another alternative is to setup another machine that does have internet access with exactly the same OS and version with the same version of nodejs and the same node-red installed in the same way. Then install the node on that machine and copy the whole .node-red folder (or wherever your node red user directory is) to the production machine.

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I have tried in a similar environment, I installed Node-RED, disconnected the PC from the network and I can't load the .tgz. I get the following log:

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2024-04-04T13:29:10.254Z Instalar : node-red-contrib-s7-0.1.0.tgz

2024-04-04T13:29:10.640Z npm.cmd install --no-audit --no-update-notifier --no-fund --save --save-prefix=~ --production --engine-strict C:\Users\54935\.node-red\nodes\node-red-contrib-s7-0.1.0.tgz
2024-04-04T13:29:11.399Z [err] npm
2024-04-04T13:29:11.400Z [err]  WARN config production Use --omit=dev instead.
2024-04-04T13:30:45.927Z [err] npm ERR!
2024-04-04T13:30:45.927Z [err]  code ENOTFOUND
2024-04-04T13:30:45.927Z [err] npm ERR! 
2024-04-04T13:30:45.927Z [err] syscall getaddrinfo
2024-04-04T13:30:45.927Z [err] npm ERR!
2024-04-04T13:30:45.927Z [err]  
2024-04-04T13:30:45.928Z [err] errno ENOTFOUND
2024-04-04T13:30:45.932Z [err] npm ERR! network
2024-04-04T13:30:45.932Z [err]  request to https://registry.npmjs.org/nodes7 failed, reason: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND registry.npmjs.org
2024-04-04T13:30:45.932Z [err] npm 
2024-04-04T13:30:45.932Z [err] ERR! network This is a problem related to network connectivity.
2024-04-04T13:30:45.932Z [err] npm ERR! network In most cases you are behind a proxy or have bad network settings.
2024-04-04T13:30:45.932Z [err] npm ERR! network 
2024-04-04T13:30:45.933Z [err] npm ERR! network If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
2024-04-04T13:30:45.933Z [err] npm ERR!
2024-04-04T13:30:45.933Z [err]  network 'proxy' config is set properly.  See: 'npm help config'
2024-04-04T13:30:45.938Z [err] 
2024-04-04T13:30:45.938Z [err] npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\54935\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2024-04-04T13_29_11_358Z-debug-0.log
2024-04-04T13:30:45.955Z rc=1

I then tested by connecting the PC to the network and the installation ran successfully.
What other way could I try?

BR

Admin edit: wrap logs in a code bock for reabaility and preserving formatting

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The tgz does not contain all the dependencies so tries to get them from NPM - so you have the same issue as before.

I wrote a reply on a potential solution some weeks back - i will see if I can find it.

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Here you go: Can't install node-red-contrib-chart-image - #4 by Steve-Mcl

Perhaps you will try this and let us all know (unlike the OP in the linked thread who never bother to?)

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I have managed to install the node-red-contrib-s7 package as you specified, but the same has not happened with node-red-contrib-opcua. The latter took longer to compress and then gave me an error on installation.

2024-04-04T16:26:25.533Z Instalar : node-red-contrib-opcua-0.2.323.tgz

2024-04-04T16:28:42.132Z npm.cmd install --no-audit --no-update-notifier --no-fund --save --save-prefix=~ --production --engine-strict C:\Users\54935\.node-red\nodes\node-red-contrib-opcua-0.2.323.tgz
2024-04-04T16:28:42.745Z [err] npm
2024-04-04T16:28:42.745Z [err]  WARN config production Use `--omit=dev` instead.
2024-04-04T16:35:34.174Z [out] 
2024-04-04T16:35:34.174Z [out] added 1 package in 7m
2024-04-04T16:35:34.209Z rc=0

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