# Need Help to install Translate filter in Logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-install-translate-filter-in-logstash/100276
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [September 13, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-install-translate-filter-in-logstash/100276 "2017-09-13T03:51:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Akrishna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akrishna)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-install-translate-filter-in-logstash/100276/1 "2017-09-13T03:51:30Z")
My server(centos) has logstash installed but I donot have internet connection there.
1)So I installed translate filter from below site in my local machine(Windows os).
[https://rubygems.org/gems/logstash-filter-translate](https://rubygems.org/gems/logstash-filter-translate)
2)Then I copied the downloaded gem file to my server and ran the command:
/home/logstash/bin/logstash-plugin prepare-offline-pack logstash-filter-translate-3.0.3.gem
But I get below error:
ERROR: No such sub-command 'prepare-offline-pack'
Also tried:- /home/logstash/bin/logstash-plugin --local logstash-filter-translate
error:-ERROR: Unrecognised option '--local'
Please help with this!
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### Author:  [@NerdSec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NerdSec)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-install-translate-filter-in-logstash/100276/2 "2017-09-13T06:10:43Z")
Hi,
I am no expert in plugin installation, however, your method seems a bit wrong!
> [Offline Plugin Management | Logstash Reference [8.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/offline-plugins.html)
Did you go through this page?
Regards,
Nachiket
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### Author:  [@Akrishna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akrishna)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-install-translate-filter-in-logstash/100276/3 "2017-09-13T06:19:40Z")
I did not quite understand the [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/offline-plugins.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/offline-plugins.html),
so if you could help me with the installation, it would be highly appreciated.
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### Author:  [@NerdSec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NerdSec)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2017, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-install-translate-filter-in-logstash/100276/4 "2017-09-13T06:22:25Z")
That would be quite difficult. The documentation is straight forward.
Basically, you would need a staging server. This server should have internet access. Once, you install the plugin on the staging server, you can pack it and install it manually on your production server.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2017, 6:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-install-translate-filter-in-logstash/100276/5 "2017-10-11T06:23:06Z")
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