We’re looking to use a Julia (v1.10) program at work, but IT blocks Github on our network. We got them to download the source code and (several dozen) dependencies themselves from Github in package form and send them to us. I extracted the packages, renamed the folders to remove the *.jl-master extension, and appended the dependency file path to the LOAD_PATH environment variable, but I’m now having trouble actually using the packages, as Julia tries to clone a registry from JuliaRegistries/General.git when running ‘using ‘, which fails due to Github again being blocked. Is there a way to install or otherwise use source code from external packages completely offline that bypasses the registry issue?

There have been a few related posts suggesting having the program installed presumably by IT and have them send us the ~/.julia file containing the installation, or to use a container, but these fixes still go through IT, which is a lengthy approval process, and I’m not sure if the registry issue would still occur. There is also a related post which suggests placing the packages in compiled form into a file path that is appended to the LOAD_PATH, but I believe that would require another package (PackageCompiler.jl) to compile the source code, which may run into the same registry issue assuming I can get it downloaded from IT. Maybe I can resolve the dependencies with a ton of include/using statements, although the building/compiling of dependencies may still be an issue.