How to do offline installation in windows machine

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Hi @anupk,

Below I wrote down the exact steps, like a recipe, to deploy Rasa X to an Ubuntu VM that you build on Windows 10 with Hyper-V. This recipe should work for you in exactly the same way, since you have a Windows 10 machine with internet access.

Then, you can export this virtual machine from Windows 10 to your Windows 2012 R2 server. I did not test it out, but found instructions in this blog post.

What is Hyper-V

See: Introduction to Hyper-V on Windows 10

Enable Hyper-V & DISM (docs)

First enable Hyper-V using Powershell as Administrator:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All

Reboot after installation

Also enable Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool, using Powershell as Administrator

DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /All /FeatureName:Microsoft-Hyper-V

Reboot after installation

Create Ubuntu 18.04 VM (docs)

Start > Hyper-V Quick Create: Select Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

The default root partition is only 11Gb… That is not enough!

Before connecting: Resize disk for Ubuntu Hyper-V Quick Create Image

  • References:

  • Prerequisite:

    • You will need to download the GParted live CD ISO file so that you can use it later, you can get this here.

  • Before connecting to your Ubuntu VM: Start > Hyper-V Manager

    • Change name of VM to something like: rasa-x-ce or rasa-x-ee
    • Actions: Edit Disk..:
      • A Virtual Hard Drive Wizard comes up:
        • Expand Virtual Hard disk size to 25+ Gb
    • Settings…
      • Hardware: SCSI Control --> Add DVD Drive --> point to the gparted iso file
      • Hardware: Firmware --> Change boot order, so it boots from DVD Drive
      • Turn off checkpoints

  • Now connect & then start VM:

    • VM boots into gparted:
      • Click on FIX when GPT error comes up
      • Resize /dev/sda1 to use all of the disk, by right-click -> Resize/Move & Apply
      • Shut down VM

  • Go back to Start > Hyper-V Manager:

    • Settings…
      • Hardware: Firmware --> Change boot order, so it boots from Hard Drive

  • Now connect & then start VM

    • The OS will be installed:
      • Make sure to chose a username & password & Require my password to log in
    • Verify that indeed the disk has been enlarged, using $ df /dev/sda1

Install required utilities

Connect to the Ubuntu VM, login and issue these commands to install some required utilities:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install curl python3-distutils python-testresources

# Install docker 
# https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/
$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent  software-properties-common
$ curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88  # verify this works
$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
$ sudo apt-get update    
$ sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

# Install docker-compose
# https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
# NOTE: Change 1.25.0 to latest version
$ sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.25.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

# Verify this works, with python above 3.6
$ python3 --version && docker -v && docker-compose -v

Deploy Rasa X CE or Rasa X EE (docs)

Start & connect to the Ubuntu VM & you can deploy Rasa X CE or Rasa X EE by simply using the Quick Installation method.

Access Rasa X

Once all the docker containers are up & running, access Rasa X with:

# First find IP + port of Rasa X 
$ sudo docker ps -a  
# => PORT of rasa-x:  5002/tcp

$ sudo docker inspect <CONTAINER ID of rasa-x>
# => eg. "IPAddress": "172.21.0.6"

# Then, on your VM, open your browser to log into rasa-x, as admin user, and do further configurations: 
# eg. 172.21.0.6:5002
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