# Installing Timelion with no Internet access

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-timelion-with-no-internet-access/36157
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** timelion
**Created:** [December 2, 2015, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-timelion-with-no-internet-access/36157 "2015-12-02T12:00:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![burnsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@burnsie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/burnsie)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2015, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-timelion-with-no-internet-access/36157/1 "2015-12-02T12:00:08Z")

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My linux server doesn't have real world access so I downloaded it from GIT... [https://github.com/elastic/timelion](https://github.com/elastic/timelion)

Then sent it over to the server... but its a zip, so the install command doesn't work.

Okay, so Unzip and then tar.gz it...

ie  
unzip timelion-master.zip --\> unzip to timelion-master

tar cvzf timelion-master.tar.gz timelion-master --\> zip it into timelion-master.tar.gz

then I attempt to install...

qqb2c00@ltb2c01:~/elk/kibana-4.2.0-beta2-linux-x64\> ./bin/kibana plugin -i timelion -u file:timelion-master.tar.gz  
Installing timelion  
Attempting to extract from file:timelion-master.tar.gz  
Extraction complete  
Optimizing and caching browser bundles...  
Plugin installation was unsuccessful due to error "Optimizations failure.

```
ERROR in ./installedPlugins/.plugin.installing/public/directives/expression_directive.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'pegjs' in /global/contint/elk/kibana-4.2.0-beta2-linux-x64/installedPlugins/.plugin.installing/public/directives
 @ ./installedPlugins/.plugin.installing/public/directives/expression_directive.js 6:10-26

```

Any ideas?

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### Author: ![rashid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashid/32/12566_2.png) [@rashid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashid)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-timelion-with-no-internet-access/36157/2 "2015-12-08T15:09:04Z")

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Github archives, of all projects, are of the source, not the build. You'd need to download the built version from [https://download.elasticsearch.org/kibana/timelion/timelion-latest.tar.gz](https://download.elasticsearch.org/kibana/timelion/timelion-latest.tar.gz)

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### Author: ![rashid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashid/32/12566_2.png) [@rashid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashid)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-timelion-with-no-internet-access/36157/3 "2015-12-08T15:09:40Z")

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I also can't promise it will work on 4.2.0 beta 2. I'd update to 4.3.0 if I were you.

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### Author: ![gsaray101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@gsaray101](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gsaray101)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-timelion-with-no-internet-access/36157/4 "2016-01-15T20:27:17Z")

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once downloaded, how do you install? where do you put this file?

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### Author: ![rashid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashid/32/12566_2.png) [@rashid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashid)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-timelion-with-no-internet-access/36157/5 "2016-01-15T20:38:21Z")

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extract it to kibana/installedPlugins

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### Author: ![Andrea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@Andrea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrea)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-timelion-with-no-internet-access/36157/6 "2016-07-20T10:16:47Z")

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I extracted timelion-latest.tar file to kibana/installedPlugins but it's not working and even if i removed it, Kibana is returning internal server error. How could I fix it?

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### Author: ![rashid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashid/32/12566_2.png) [@rashid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashid)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-timelion-with-no-internet-access/36157/7 "2016-07-20T16:33:09Z")

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You really should use the the Kibana plugin installer with the `--url` option pointing to a file path. That said, if you need to fix your current Kibana installation you can `rm -rf optimize/*` in your Kibana directory

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-timelion-with-no-internet-access/36157/8 "2017-07-06T13:45:28Z")

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