Run Cypress 13 on a machine without Internet connection

We would like to run Cypress tests on a machine that has no connection to the Internet. The machine runs an Ubuntu 22.04.5LTS operating system.

Steps to reproduce:

On an Ubuntu machine with Internet access:

  • Run “npm install cypress –save-dev” to install cypress (current version 13.17.0) on the machine.

  • Run “npx cypress open”: Cypress app can be opened

  • Copy the parent folder where npm install was executed and the Cypress cache under “~/.cache/Cypress/13.17.0” to a similar Ubuntu machine without internet access. It was placed under the same folder structure on the target machine.

On the Ubuntu machine without Internet access:

  • Run “npx cypress open”: Cypress app starts up but is stuck on the first loading screen (see image: Cypress loading screen)

Is there any way to open/run Cypress (13.17.0) without any connection to the Internet? Are we missing any files required to open Cypress?