# 5.2 Offline Plugin Install
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-2-offline-plugin-install/73665
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [February 2, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-2-offline-plugin-install/73665 "2017-02-02T11:47:38Z")
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### Author:  [@NirKa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NirKa)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-2-offline-plugin-install/73665/1 "2017-02-02T11:47:38Z")
Hi,
I'm trying to use the new offline plugin install feature and it doesn't seem to work... looks like I'm missing something.
I created a custom plugin that pushes events to google pub sub.
Steps:
1. Installed the plugin on a staging server (with internet access) and checked that its working.
2. packed the plugin with command:
`bin/logstash-plugin prepare-offline-pack logstash-output-google-cloud-pubsub`
That generated the compressed file: logstash-offline-plugins-5.2.0.zip
1. I copied the file to the remote server to logstash-5.2.0 installation directory and executed command:
`bin/logstash-plugin install file:///home/bi/logstash-5.2.0/logstash-offline-plugins-5.2.0.zip`
got this error:
ERROR: File not found for: file:///home/bi/logstash-5.2.0/logstash-offline-plugins-5.2.0.zip, message: Can't file local file /home/bi/logstash-5.2.0/logstash-offline-plugins-5.2.0.zip
1. It looks like it doesn't like the "file://" part so i tried this:
`bin/logstash-plugin install /home/bi/logstash-5.2.0/logstash-offline-plugins-5.2.0.zip`
got this error:
Validating /home/bi/logstash-5.2.0/logstash-offline-plugins-5.2.0.zip
Unable to download data from [https://rubygems.org](https://rubygems.org) - Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - Connection refused ([https://api.rubygems.org/latest\_specs.4.8.gz](https://api.rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz))
1. Tried to install with --no-verify:
`bin/logstash-plugin install --no-verify /home/bi/logstash-5.2.0/logstash-offline-plugins-5.2.0.zip`
got this error:
Installing /home/bi/logstash-5.2.0/logstash-offline-plugins-5.2.0.zip
Plugin not found, aborting
ERROR: Installation Aborted, message: Could not find gem '/home/bi/logstash-5.2.0/logstash-offline-plugins-5.2.0.zip (\>= 0) java' in any of the gem sources listed in your Gemfile or installed on this machine.
Any idea what is the issue here?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@NirKa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NirKa)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-2-offline-plugin-install/73665/2 "2017-02-02T13:02:55Z")
never mine, stupid mistake - path wasn't correct.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-2-offline-plugin-install/73665/3 "2017-03-02T13:03:18Z")
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