Installing without Internet access

Follow these steps to install this Server-Side Extension (SSE) on an offline Windows machine.

You will need an alternate Windows machine with Internet access to prepare the files, and a way to transfer these files to the target machine.

Prepare the installation files

Use a Windows machine with Internet access for these steps.

Download the Python 3.6 offline executable installer and copy it to the target machine.
Download the Python packages required for this project.
- The Python version on this machine should match the target machine.
- Download the required packages from a terminal using pip.
```
pip download grpcio grpcio-tools numpy pandas sas7bdat
```
- Copy the package files to the target machine into a folder named offline.
Download the latest release for this SSE and copy it to the target machine.
Download Qlik-SAS-Init Offline.bat from the project's repository on GitHub under offline-install.

Install Python 3.6 using the offline executable. Remember to select the option to add Python to your PATH environment variable.
Extract the latest release for this SSE to a location of your choice.
Place the offline folder with the Python package files into the same location.
Copy Qlik-SAS-Init Offline.bat to the same location, right click and chose 'Run as Administrator'.
Continue with the installation steps in the main documentation.