[osgeo4w-dev] Offline installer from cache not working

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Marwan,

On Mon, 18. May 2026 at 08:39:20 +0000, BADAWI Marwan wrote:
> Here is the full process I am running:
> 1 - Perform an express install and select QGIS and GDAL components. Everything is working and this is what I am trying to reproduce (if there is an easier way to duplicate this, I am all for it).
> 2 - Recover the installed.db file from that install.
> 3 - Create an offline cache using the installed.db file and running the following command : osgeo4w-setup.exe --arch x86_64 --quiet-mode --autoaccept --no-desktop --local-package-dir C:\osgeo_cache --packages $(pkg_list) --download --site http://www.norbit.de/osgeo4w/v2 --site http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/v2 --site http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/osgeo/download/osgeo4w/v2
> 4 - Uninstall the manually installed version
> 5 - Install with the following command: osgeo4w-setup.exe --arch x86_64 --quiet-mode --autoaccept --no-desktop --local-package-dir C:\osgeo_cache --packages $(pkg_list) --root C:\OSGeo4W --local-install

As said:

mkdir packages
cd packages
curl -JLO https://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/v2/osgeo4w-setup.exe
osgeo4w-setup.exe --quiet-mode --autoaccept --arch x86_64 --local-package-dir %CD% --download -s https://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/v2 --packages qgis-full

and then copying packages to an unconnected machine and running:

cd packages
osgeo4w-setup.exe --quiet-mode --autoaccept --arch x86_64 --local-package-dir %CD% --local-install --packages qgis-full

works fine for me.   No need to preinstall and mess with installed.db and
--no-desktop is default anyway.   But your package list also works for
me.  That's apparently not the problem.  setup.log or setup.log.full might have
more information.


Jürgen

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