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Due to various IT policies at my workplace, QGIS is installed on a machine that is not connected to the Internet. I wish to install a couple of QGIS plugins on this system.
I have downloaded the required plugins from http://pyqgis.org/repo/contributed. How do I install them in QGIS?
For QGIS 3 (see the Changelog for QGIS 3.0)
When QGIS 3 is released it will contain a Install from Zip menu item to remove the need for you to manually do it.
You can just extract them into the .qgis/python/plugins folder in your home directory.
If you are using QGIS 1.9.0. (available as nightly build) you need to extract the archive into .qgis2/python/plugins instead.
The folder structure should look like this:
.qgis
├── python
│ └── plugins
│ └──plugin folder
│ └──plugin folder
│ └──plugin folder
For example, this is an extract of what mine looks like:
C:\Users\{username}\.qgis2`. Don't install into the QGIS Dufour` folder.