# How do i create a local maven/ivy repository and fill it?

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-create-a-local-maven-ivy-repository-and-fill-it/7106>\
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**Created:** [January 31, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-create-a-local-maven-ivy-repository-and-fill-it/7106 "2014-01-31T04:49:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ray\_Tayek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/ray_tayek/32/4985_2.png) [@Ray\_Tayek](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Ray_Tayek)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-create-a-local-maven-ivy-repository-and-fill-it/7106/1 "2014-01-31T04:49:00Z")

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hi, i am going to give a presentation on gradle, but there is no internet access.

is it possible to make a local repository and fill it with what i will need?

thanks

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**Author:** ![Perryn\_Fowler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Perryn\_Fowler](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Perryn_Fowler)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-create-a-local-maven-ivy-repository-and-fill-it/7106/2 "2014-01-31T06:37:00Z")

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The simplest approach might be to use a flat directory resolver

[http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/dependency\_management.html#sec:flat\_dir\_resolver](http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/dependency_management.html#sec:flat_dir_resolver)

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**Author:** ![bmuschko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/bmuschko/32/5458_2.png) [@bmuschko](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/bmuschko)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-create-a-local-maven-ivy-repository-and-fill-it/7106/3 "2014-01-31T12:52:00Z")

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I’d probably just try to exercise all tasks you are planning to run during the presentation from home. That would resolve all required dependencies. After that you can run your build with the [–offline](http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/userguide_single.html#sec:cache_command_line_options) flag. Another option would be to simply record the demos and show the videos during the presentation.

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**Author:** ![Ray\_Tayek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/ray_tayek/32/4985_2.png) [@Ray\_Tayek](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Ray_Tayek)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-create-a-local-maven-ivy-repository-and-fill-it/7106/4 "2014-01-31T16:38:00Z")

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how would i populate it initially?

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**Author:** ![Ray\_Tayek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/ray_tayek/32/4985_2.png) [@Ray\_Tayek](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Ray_Tayek)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-create-a-local-maven-ivy-repository-and-fill-it/7106/5 "2014-01-31T16:41:00Z")

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that would work for me. but i was hoping to allow people in the audience to run the code examples. can i copy the caches? are they in ~/.gradle and ~/.m2?

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**Author:** ![bmuschko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/bmuschko/32/5458_2.png) [@bmuschko](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/bmuschko)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-create-a-local-maven-ivy-repository-and-fill-it/7106/6 "2014-01-31T17:57:00Z")

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That would be ‘~/.gradle’.

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**Author:** ![bmuschko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/bmuschko/32/5458_2.png) [@bmuschko](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/bmuschko)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-create-a-local-maven-ivy-repository-and-fill-it/7106/7 "2014-01-31T17:58:00Z")

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I’d write a task of type ‘Copy’ that uses the relevant configuration to download all dependencies to a directory. I am sure you’ll find many examples in the forum.

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**Author:** ![Schalk\_Cronje](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/schalk_cronje/32/6511_2.png) [@Schalk\_Cronje](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Schalk_Cronje)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-create-a-local-maven-ivy-repository-and-fill-it/7106/8 "2014-11-27T21:56:00Z")

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Here is an example of doing it for unitests

[https://gist.github.com/ysb33r/6245ce9bef040bd7930f](https://gist.github.com/ysb33r/6245ce9bef040bd7930f)