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+Ansible can also install from a source directory in several ways:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+    collections:
+      # directory containing the collection
+      - source: ./my_namespace/my_collection/
+        type: dir
+
+      # directory containing a namespace, with collections as subdirectories
+      - source: ./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:
+
+.. code-block:: 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.