# Shared Snippets

# installing_collections_file

Ansible can also install from a source directory in several ways:

``` yaml
collections:
  # directory containing the collection
  - name: ./my_namespace/my_collection/
    type: dir

  # directory containing a namespace, with collections as subdirectories
  - name: ./my_namespace/
    type: subdirs
```

Ansible can also install a collection collected with `ansible-galaxy collection build` or downloaded from Galaxy for offline use by specifying the output file directly:

``` yaml
collections:
  - name: /tmp/my_namespace-my_collection-1.0.0.tar.gz
    type: file
```

> [!NOTE]
> Relative paths are calculated from the current working directory (where you are invoking `ansible-galaxy install -r` from). They are not taken relative to the `requirements.yml` file.