If you need to install OpenFisca on a server with no Internet access, here is how to do it.
The big picture: download Python packages on a machine with Internet access, copy them to the server and install them in a virtualenv.
We assume that it is possible to copy files to the server, for example via a USB stick. Or perhaps the server filters only outgoing connections, but accepts incoming connections allowing to copy the files.
We are going to create a first virtualenv in which we’ll use pip to download the .whl files in a specific directory.
Here we use pew to simplify virtualenv management.
pip install pew
pew new openfisca-packages --python=python3.7
# Upgrade pip itself
pip install --upgrade pip
pip --version
# Should print at least 9.0 at the time we write this doc.
mkdir ~/openfisca-packages
cd ~/openfisca-packages
pip download OpenFisca-France
# You should see the downloaded files in the current directory.
Now copy these files on the server (say in the ~/openfisca-packages directory), either via a USB stick, or with scp, or any other way.
Example with scp:
scp -r ~/openfisca-packages user@server:
Starting from here we assume you copied the packages on the server, say in ~/openfisca-packages.
The following commands show how to install Python packages without any Internet access.
If you already have a virtualenv, activate it. Otherwise create a new one following the same instructions as above (for example with pew new).
pip install ~/openfisca-packages/*
Processing ./isodate-0.5.4.tar.gz
[...]
Installing collected packages: pytz, Babel, Biryani, numpy, PyYAML, OpenFisca-Core, requests, OpenFisca-France, isodate
Successfully installed Babel-2.3.4 Biryani-0.10.4 OpenFisca-Core-7.0.0 OpenFisca-France-15.1.0 PyYAML-3.12 isodate-0.5.4 numpy-1.12.0 pytz-2016.10 requests-2.13.0
pip list | grep OpenFisca-France
OpenFisca-France 15.1.0
Run the basic tests which confirm that OpenFisca-France is correctly installed:
python -m openfisca_france.tests.test_basics
OpenFisca-France basic test was executed successfully.