Having problems with the package manager?

[metallica48423]

willwishers, please be patient.  Posting in the middle of the night where most of us live in the US won't always get answers very fast In some cases it requires a little research to find an acceptable answer.  "plssss help" doesnt give us much idea of what is wrong .

Can you please clearly and specifically outline what problem that you are experiencing?

[Sarge]

plz reply ,,,

i asked many time no one replying
in my forum in packages i m getting there is no packages yet,,

i cnat upload new packaege and even cant upgread forum i tried to chmod777 and also adding temp dir but nthing happnd ,,, plz plzzz plz helpppppppppppppp

I updated your forum to SMF 1.1.4. There was no Packages directory at all, and of course no temp dir, so I recreated them and chmodded both to 777.

To update your forum, I downloaded the SMF 1.1.4 update patch, uploaded it in Admin > Packages > Download Packages and installed it from there.

Let us know how it goes.

[funcouldron]

hey ,, very much thankx to u ,,,,


u siad thr is no packages directory thn how my mod of tinyportal is working,, my packages dir is outside the forum dir,, if u have noticed,, i made temp dir in it and thought tht by defult packages dir is made thr,,


once again thx for ur gr8 help ,,,

i m planing to earn from my site ,, i will surly  do some donation if i earn from my site,,,

thx once again,,,,




one last q??

can u tell me is thr any mod to put add on site,,,?

[funcouldron]

sry if i cosed any trouble ,, i m indian and here in india it was a day ,,, i dint thought abt night thr,,,:)

[Sarge]

u siad thr is no packages directory thn how my mod of tinyportal is working,, my packages dir is outside the forum dir,, if u have noticed,, i made temp dir in it and thought tht by defult packages dir is made thr,,

My guess is that you moved the Packages directory accidentally (probably by drag-and-drop), after TinyPortal was installed. Mods don't need the Packages directory to work after they're installed -- it is only needed by Package Manager to install, list and uninstall mods.

i m planing to earn from my site ,, i will surly  do some donation if i earn from my site,,,

You're welcome to do so I recommend this:
http://www.simplemachines.org/charter/
or this:
http://www.simplemachines.org/about/donate.php

can u tell me is thr any mod to put add on site,,,?

Check out the SMF Mod Site.
For your information: after installing the update patch, I installed the No Temp Directory Removal mod to make it easier for you to install mods.

sry if i cosed any trouble ,, i m indian and here in india it was a day ,,, i dint thought abt night thr,,,:)

Don't worry about it. Just please do not bump support request within 24 hours. We are all volunteers here and give support on our free time.

[funcouldron]

thn how can i uninstall thos mods now worknig on my site???



coz now i cant see tht mods  in package manager,,??


i need to do it manualy only??



i dnt want to remove it ,, but liek to knw,, if it req in future

[Sarge]

thn how can i uninstall thos mods now worknig on my site???

coz now i cant see tht mods  in package manager,,??

i need to do it manualy only??

Do NOT uninstall "SMF 1.0.12 / 1.1.4 / 2.0 b1.1 Update" and I recommend keeping "No Temp Directory Removal". Delete them if you want, but don't uninstall them.

I logged on again and I can see the mod packages in Package Manager. It's possible that it takes awhile for the mods to be uploaded to the correct place (because of the hosting server setup).

It looks like they are not available for some time after upload (perhaps while being scanned for viruses?)

[funcouldron]

i m not talknig abt tht mods i m talknig abt modesl ike tinyportal and other i inasalled earlier






did u  like site??

any recomandations?

[Sarge]

i m not talknig abt tht mods i m talknig abt modesl ike tinyportal and other i intalled earlier

Copy them over from the Packages directory that is out of the forum directory.

You also have to merge the files named installed.list from the new and the old Packages directories. Open them in a text editor and add the contents of the old installed.list to the start of the new one, then upload the merged file into the new Packages dir.

[funcouldron]

thx for help....

will do tht...

i m changind admin pass for tempadmin nw,, ...
thankuuuuuuuu

[babjusi]

Sorry for getting off topics guys, but this proved me right again. In spite of the so called Don''t bump posts/topics within 24 hours rule, the persons that bump like there is no tomorrow get all the attention and support they want, whereas those who obey the rules and wait patiently get an answer months later with something like ''Is your issue resolved or do you still require assistance''....... I don''t think this is fair.........

[Sarge]

babjusi, that member had already started a separate topic for his Package Manager issues:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=194783.0

You posted there. None of the posted solutions worked for him. Therefore, since I had some free time, I offered to investigate the issue directly. I think the main problem stemmed from the fact that he had moved the Packages directory out of the forum directory, something that none of us could have guessed, could we?

[babjusi]

Sarge, it was not meant personally my friend. It was just an observation, that particular person bumped 6 times within 24 hours. Anyway, I apologize again for getting off topic, but wouldn''t have been better if a user that doesn''t bump his posts/topics gets helped first? I mean, what is the message that we send out like this, bump away cause you will get faster help inspite of that being against the rules?

P.s. Even at that topic he bumped as well numerous time

[metallica48423]

not with me

when i do support I almost always do oldest first (we have a script for this, very useful indeed), so these bumpers get put at the end of the line. 

This instance here, he had another topic and sarge'd already helped him with (that i missed in my tiredness). 

That said, i don't disagree that it seems that way sometimes.  And its something that should be addressed.  Theres some more important issues to be addressed at the moment, but its not something i haven't noticed.

That said, i highly reccommend starting a new topic in general discussion and feedback instead of continuing this discussion here. 

[funcouldron]

i already apologised to cause trouble by posting continuously in 24 hours,,,,, but i asked for help long back as u knw,,,


and i was nt famalier eith tht rule of not posting within 24 hours,,,,


i already said sry for tht,,,,

so plz dnt make it big issue,,,,

[metallica48423]

willwishers: you are fine, no problems at all, my post above your last one was directed at ol' wombat

[Ch4rOon]

Hello

Same problem on hxxp:free.fr [nonactive] server :

I can upload & install other mods.
I already have these installed :
                                                  1. Spoiler Tag 0.3.2 
                                                  2. Attachments Positioning 1.1
                                                  3. Auto Embed Video Clips 1.6    
                                                  4. Remove Post Modified Time 1.1

I already have "temp" directory in forum/packages/
I've got this error whan applicate the mod :

07.  Appliquer la modification     ./Sources/Post.php     Échec du test
17.  Appliquer la modification     ./Sources/Load.php    Échec du test

07. apply modification     ./Sources/Post.php       Test failed
17. apply modification   ./Sources/Load.php      Test failed

It's not possible to chmod 777 on this server (neither 775 or 666)
Any idea please ? Eldacar's method doesn't work too.

I've tryed 666/755 too, but no way to affect these attributes to the files in /sources/.

I've test with making a file with mkdir : chmod.php
- I have renamed "sources" -> sources 2
- In the chmod.php i've entered : <?php  mkdir ("./sources/", 0775); ?>
- Uploaded file by ftp in "/forum" and executed it by firefox : http://mysite/forum/chmod.php
- A directory "sources" has been created with chmod 775 (yes!) (noway with 777)
- just to drap/drop the files in "sources 2" to "sources" but same thing all files are in 644.
-So i've tried to copy theses files on my pc and reuploading them ( when a file is upload in a ftp, it's taking the same chmod as the parent directory) but no way.
- always in chmod 644 ...

Does anyone know the command for create a file instead of a directory in a ".php"
I think that it may be work if I create a virgin "load.php" in chmod 775 and paste the lines in it after.

( I've already tried to install it manually but when i'm searching for theses lines : 
"$context['show_spellchecking']" or "global $ID_MEMBER, $user_info, $board_info, $options;" in the file Post.php i can't find nothing. So i've got no idea of where i've got to put the code in .
(Free.fr servers does not have spellcheck.dll for exemple)
And as far as i'm a nOob, i'll not try to "macguyverise" it xD

thanks

(sorry for my english, I need to practice more often xD)

Anyone ? i've had retry yesturday and today but i'm not finding since I haven't the same lines as decrypt in the modification.xml of the package so i don't know where to put them.

[SinekSekiz]

Hi All

First I am going to start with a confession. I have more then that I can chew in my mouth. I had an professional hosting package from a good hosting company and I taught I learned enough to move on a server package. And you know what? I moved to a root server package. : )

Now I have all sorts of problems that I have to figure out myself. But unfortunately it is not as easy as I imagined. Well I always do this mistake. (And I was the one who stole the apples from our neighbours garden when I was 8. Hell I could climb like a monkey.) Lets finish wit confessions and start with problems.

Since I transferred my sites from my hosting package to root server I am having problem with installation packages and Themes. I start to installation progress as usual. It start uploading data but at the end it show the same Installation pages like I did not touch anything.

When I check with my FTP I cant see any folders belongs to that Theme. Same applies for packages as well. It uploads the zip file but it does not execute it to install the package.

So as far as I read this topic I understand it is something to do with Safe Mode and SuExec. I disable PHP - Safe Mode trough Plesk 8.1 but I could not see any options about SuExec.

Another thing about Package manager is if I try to go options and change the mode to "All files are writable." it asks me to enter FTP details. When I do it gives me an error saying the path way is incorrect.

Default Path is in the package manager is: /vhosts/aylakdiyar.com/httpdocs
I tried to enter full path as: /var/www/vhosts/aylakdiyar.com/httpdocs

These does not work either. Could you tell me how to set up my server to work fine with package manager?

I use Fedora Core 6 - Plesk 8.1

Thank you.

[青山 素子]

The path for the FTP information is almost never the same as the full server path. Connect manually using an FTP program to determine the correct path.

[SinekSekiz]

Hi Motoko-chan

Could you tell me how to check the path from a FTP program. I am going around and around with Core FTP Lite and only path I can see is "/". My files installed on "/httpdocs/". It is a little bit confusing.

Or do you know how would I see it from Plesk 8.1

Thank you for reply.