# Update without internet & question regarding RNode over IP

_Help · started by Necom on Tue, Jun 16, 2026 7:58 AM_

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## Original post

**Necom** · Tue, Jun 16, 2026 7:58 AM

So this will kind of be 2 posts in one as I had some issues connecting. First of all, how do I update from a downloaded release? This computer has no internet connection, only a reticulum connection over a LoRa link so I can't exactly do pip install -U rns, so how do I do it? And 2nd of all, do RNodes have issues connecting to Wi-Fi networks in general or is it just hidden Wi-Fi networks? It seems a little inconsistent, yesterday it worked perfectly for a while, but a few hours later it had disconnected and I can't get it to reconnect

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## Reply 1

**welo** · Tue, Jun 16, 2026 11:26 AM

I do think a package manager for reticulum using reticulum is in the works cause it's mentioned once here https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/releases/tag/1.2.5

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## Reply 2

**Necom** · Tue, Jun 16, 2026 11:53 AM

Yes I'm aware of that, however as that hasn't been released yet I need another way to update. I assume one of those .whl files is what contains the release so I guess updating would have to involve downloading that, but after that I don't know how to actually install it

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## Reply 3

**Mark** · Tue, Jun 16, 2026 3:28 PM

Did any of you happen to read the fine document called "the manual", by any odd chance? There's even a handy *search* function that can locate information in a snap.

Speaking of searching, this has been answered at least two times before on this forum.

Even the release notes for RNS clearly state how to fetch and update over Reticulum itself:

```sh
rngit release rns://7649a50d84610232d1416b41d2896aff/reticulum/reticulum fetch "latest:rns-*.whl" --signer bc7291552be7a58f361522990465165c
pip install ./rns-*.whl
```

As simple as that.

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## Reply 4

**Necom** · Tue, Jun 16, 2026 4:48 PM

Can't speak for everyone but I certainly did read said document, and this information does not appear to be in it. Clearly, it needs to be stated more clearly, assuming it's stated at all. And yes, I did use the search function.

As for the release notes, I've found exactly one release where this is the case. Whenever someone goes to check if there are new releases, the first thing they're going to do is not to check the notes of that one specific release. And once they have checked the notes for the most recent they're not necessarily going to go through all the other releases, especially when their connection is a couple hectobits per second and each page takes a while to load. Perhaps it could be included in the README?

Thanks for replying but I do feel like it should be more upfront and easier to find in the documentation

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## Reply 5

**Mark** · Thu, Jun 18, 2026 9:16 AM

Fair enough, I guess I was a bit grumpy there.

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## Reply 6

**Necom** · Thu, Jun 18, 2026 10:13 PM

No worries, I probably should have seen it on this forum earlier. Do you by any chance happen to know if there's a way to edit posts here? I assume not since I should have found it by now but I would like to update my post. The issue with the RNode seems to have been a problem with the device hosting the Wi-Fi network and not the RNode.

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