Unable to install collection offline using zip file

[mccarther6]

SUMMARY

Due to internet restrictions, I need to be able to install the collection from a local file. Usually I download the tarball and install from there, but there doesn't seem to be one here. i have tried unzipping and compressing as a tar but I am missing files. Can you advise how I can install from the zip file please, or point me towards the tarball.

ERROR! Collection at 'cli_rm_builder-main.tar.gz' does not contain the required file MANIFEST.json.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

cli_rm_builder

ANSIBLE VERSION

2.9.10

CONFIGURATION

ansible-galaxy collection install cli_rm_builder-main.tar.gz -p lib/python3.6/site-packages/

/root/venv/cli_rm_builder_test/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/parsing/vault/init.py:44: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: Python 3.6 is no longer supported by the Python core team. Therefore, support for it is deprecated in cryptography and will be removed in a future release.
from cryptography.exceptions import InvalidSignature
[WARNING]: The specified collections path '/root/venv/cli_rm_builder_test/lib/python3.6/site-packages' is not part of the configured Ansible collections paths
'/root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections'. The installed collection won't be picked up in an Ansible run.
Process install dependency map
ERROR! Collection at 'cli_rm_builder-main.tar.gz' does not contain the required file MANIFEST.json.

OS / ENVIRONMENT

2.9.10

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

ansible-galaxy collection install cli_rm_builder-main.tar.gz -p lib/python3.6/site-packages/

or

ansible-galaxy collection install main-1.0.zip

/root/venv/cli_rm_builder_test/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/parsing/vault/init.py:44: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: Python 3.6 is no longer supported by the Python core team. Therefore, support for it is deprecated in cryptography and will be removed in a future release.
from cryptography.exceptions import InvalidSignature
Process install dependency map
ERROR! Collection artifact at 'main-1.0.zip' is not a valid tar file.

EXPECTED RESULTS

ACTUAL RESULTS

[mccarther6]

Hey, has anyone had a chance to look at this yet? I've tried installing using the zip file downloaded from the cli_rm_builder repo (via unzipping and creating a tarball) on my Mac at home as well, and I get the same issue/error.

[NilashishC]

Hi @mccarther6. Sorry for the delay on this. For air-gapped installations, you would have to build the collection from source and then install it. Here's the steps:

git clone https://github.com/ansible-network/cli_rm_builder
ansible-galaxy collection build cli_rm_builder --> would generate `ansible_network-cli_rm_builder-0.0.1.tar.gz`
ansible-galaxy collection install ansible_network-cli_rm_builder-0.0.1.tar.gz