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For systems that have no Internet access, FindBugs cannot be installed. Therefore, FindBugs is unusable, and no workaround exists. Please document a procedure for installing FindBugs offline to provide the same functionality as systems that can do the install from the Internet.
The process is the same as for any other additional plugin 1) open the catalog xml and find the URL of requested modules - to run find bug we need Findbugs library wrapper and Findbugs module - for example for 7.2.1 the links are: http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/netbeans/updates/7.2.1/uc/final/certified/modules/extra/org-netbeans-modules-findbugs.nbm http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/netbeans/updates/7.2.1/uc/final/certified/modules/extra/org-netbeans-libs-findbugs.nbm 2) on computer with internet access download the modules 3) copy to computer w/o internet access 4) install downloaded modules
These instructions are insufficient. The org-netbeans-libs-findbugs NBM contains references to required JARS, rather than the JARs themselves. Therefore an attempt to install the downloaded NBMs produces the error: There were some problems while storing FindBugs Library Wrapper. Cause: Cannot resolve external reference to netbeans/modules/ext/bcel-2.0.0.jar.external and the offline installation fails.
Adding a link to the Installing Plugins Offline help topic - http://hg.netbeans.org/main/raw-file/a384178489db/usersguide/javahelp/org/netbeans/modules/usersguide/configure/modules/updateoffline.html Please let me know if a more detailed wiki page on FindBugs offline installation specifically is required.
Did you try this? The instructions on that page are essentially a repeat of comment 1. See comment 2. A more detailed wiki page on FindBugs offline installation specifically is required.
pjdm you're right, this steps works only when there is maven repository already populated with required libraries
Closing the issue as resolved wontfix.
Why is this resolved wontfix? In an off-line situation the FindBugs mechanism built into NetBeans doesn't work (regression in functionality), and there's no known workaround. Given similar questions I've seen about installing JUnit off-line, the off-line situation doesn't appear to be terribly unusual. That seems to be the definition of a P1 bug.
The issue is marked as resolved wontfix from the documentation perspective. You may want to file another issue (not related to the usersguide product).
Fair enough. I've added a comment to bug 215881.