# Unable to install logstash-input-jdbc to connect to Oracle Db
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-logstash-input-jdbc-to-connect-to-oracle-db/147035
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [September 3, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-logstash-input-jdbc-to-connect-to-oracle-db/147035 "2018-09-03T08:33:58Z")
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### Author:  [@groverjatin17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/groverjatin17)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-logstash-input-jdbc-to-connect-to-oracle-db/147035/1 "2018-09-03T08:33:58Z")
Hi,
I am using ELK 6.2.4 for a while. Till now i have been uploading .csv files to create index in ES and create dashboards.
But recently my team asked to make it more dynamic and automated as in connect to a database , fetch data and create index and dashboard. My only lead is this plugin for Logstash.
Since I am using ELK on a secure server where i couldn't directly install this plugin, so I downloaded it from [Github](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-jdbc) as a zip and tried installing with this command
`/bin/logstash-plugin install file:///path_of_the_file.zip`
It returned this error:-
**ERROR: Invalid pack for: file:///home/tomadm/logstash-input-jdbc-master.zip, reason: The pack must contains at least one plugin, message: The pack must contains at least one plugin**
Please help me solve this issue.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-logstash-input-jdbc-to-connect-to-oracle-db/147035/2 "2018-09-03T11:21:44Z")
That method for offline installation of plugins doesn't work. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/offline-plugins.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/offline-plugins.html).
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### Author:  [@groverjatin17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/groverjatin17)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-logstash-input-jdbc-to-connect-to-oracle-db/147035/3 "2018-09-03T11:26:18Z")
Hello sir. I did try this as well.
`
> ./bin/logstash-plugin prepare-offline-pack logstash-input-jdbc
`
It returned:-
\*\* **Failed to open TCP connection to [rubygems.org:443](http://rubygems.org:443/)**\*\*
I am assuming it means that it still requires to connect to [rubygems.org](http://rubygems.org) to install the dependencies.
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-logstash-input-jdbc-to-connect-to-oracle-db/147035/4 "2018-09-03T11:48:05Z")
Did you run the prepare-offline-pack command on an internet-connected host?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-install-logstash-input-jdbc-to-connect-to-oracle-db/147035/5 "2018-10-01T11:48:09Z")
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