KNIME zipped update sites - installing individual extensions

Dear KNIMErs,

I am currently facing an issue with reaching the official update sites (or at least a few of my colleagues face this issue and I am trying to help them):

For some strange reasons (thank you data protection dept! 🤨 ) my colleagues can no longer reach the update sites via the standard way in KNIME

Install Extension > search extension > follow the installation process

So I thought this: I have heard of the updated site packages as zip files. So I downloaded the trusted community extensions one. But this comes at a size of 1.2 GB from which my colleague (at the moment) only requires one extension.

Is there a way that I directly can install an extension from the included jar files or is it always necessary to download the complete zip file and add it as an archive?

Because - of course :rofl: - my colleagues need more than one extension, which would result in a download of nearly 10GB for everyone following this route. I thought that maybe there is a way around that somehow …

Thank you in advance.