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Register your VCF Offline Depot with the VCF Business Console and download the Binaries

Posted on 12. May 202613. May 2026 by Oliver Lis

With VCF 9.1 you need to register your VCF Offline depot with the VCF Business website:

To do that download the vcf-download-tool in version 9.1 and run it with the following command:

vcf-download-tool configuration generate --software-depot-id


With that you will be able to generate a link and an ID which will allow you to download the software packages:

In the VCF Business Console you will be able to manually register your software depot:

And then you will receive an activation code back:

copy that key into a textfile within your offline depot so that it can be referenced

And then we are able to see everything:

vcf-download-tool binaries list --sku VCF --vcf-version 9.1 --depot-download-activation-code-file /root/activation-code.txt  --type INSTALL --automated-install

Now we initialize the download and lean back:

vcf-download-tool binaries download --sku VCF --vcf-version 9.1 --depot-download-activation-code-file /root/activation-code.txt  --type INSTALL --automated-install                              --depot-store /var/www/build

after everything is downloaded we can run the download command again to verify everything is there:

and don’t forget the chmod afterwards if you’ve run the downloader as root!

chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/build/PROD/ && chmod -R 750 /var/www/build/PROD/

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