# Express install without downloading binary (air-gap environment))

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**Created:** [May 25, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/express-install-without-downloading-binary-air-gap-environment/4631 "2025-05-25T18:42:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/express-install-without-downloading-binary-air-gap-environment/4631/1 "2025-05-25T18:42:59Z")

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For air gap environment running curl will failed.  
glance over ziti-cli-functions.sh there doesn't appear to be a flag for skip download/install ziti?  
little curl-ectomy and mess around with ZITI\_BIN\_DIR seem to does the trick.  
Might be worth an update to help more people start "playing" with Ziti.

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/express-install-without-downloading-binary-air-gap-environment/4631/2 "2025-05-26T14:52:51Z")

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If you want to just play around, by all means the easiest way in my opinion is to get the ziti binary and run `ziti edge quickstart`.

That will get you a quick and dirty environment to use that's great for local dev/playing. If you want to set the advertised address for the controller and router (necessary if you want to have more than one machine involed), use --ctrl-address and --router--address.

Other than that, you could always start everything up on a 'connected' machine that's how you like it, then just copy the full deployment/quickstart results over to the unconnected machine.

If you want something quick, fast, and easy though, `ziti edge quickstart` is great for that. We'll be updating the doc with this command at some point in the near future, it's not doc'ed yet...