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Tried installing from several different directories, get component clash
October 16, 2007, 04:16:10 pm
Yes, I've read Lobo's and Kurund's helpful hints on similar threads, and nothing works.

I unzipped on my local drive and ftp'd the entire unzipped com_civicrm (v1.9) into public_html. Got the message "Another component is already using directory:/home/assur3/public_html/una-connecticut/components/com_acajoom/". When I uninstall Acajoom, I get a similar error message with another installed component, etc.

I tried putting the com_civicrm folder in the administrator/components/com_install/component directory, which doesn't work at all, and I've tried creating other directories on the root and elsewhere. No matter where I install from, I have the same problem.

BTW, none of these suggestions mesh with the documentation. ???

I'd be grateful for any help on this.

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Re: Tried installing from several different directories, get component clash
October 17, 2007, 12:15:14 am
This sounds like a Joomla issue. I'm sure that it's happened to me in the past but its wierd that it is pointing at Acajoom not CiviCRM.

There's a lot of traffic on the Joomla forum on this type issue. See http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,212736.0.html

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Re: Tried installing from several different directories, get component clash
October 17, 2007, 06:00:14 am
Speleo, thanks for your speedy reply. The link you gave is a different situation, where he was trying to install the same component that was previously partially installed. That's very common, makes sense, and is easy to correct. My problem doesn't make sense, unless CiviCRM is trying to install Acajoom as part of its package, which I doubt. I've checked other Joomla posts, but this situation only seems to occur with CiviCRM (I've installed many components from directory and upload and haven't experienced this particular problem before).

I read your post also about putting the unzipped folder in the administrator/components/component_install/component directory and pointing the installer there, but when I do that, the Joomla directory installer complains there is no install file, as it only reads the path to ".../component", and ignores that I entered ".../component/com_civicrm". Did that not happen to you? Can't figure out why mine would operate differently.

Would there be some problem introduced by unzipping the com_civicrm folder on my hard drive before uploading, as opposed to unzipping on the server? I don't see why, but maybe I'm missing something.

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Re: Tried installing from several different directories, get component clash
October 17, 2007, 06:33:58 am
Agree that it is weird that it indicates that another component is already using directory and it is a random component. ie Acajoom then xxx. Still sounds like a Joomla issue to me.

When doing install from directory I always unzip the file before using the Joomla installer. so it points at the whole package not a zip file.

I find unzipping locally and ftp'ing all the files individually very very slow and not 100% guaranteed.

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Re: Tried installing from several different directories, get component clash
October 17, 2007, 07:51:17 pm
Any reason you suspect Joomla? Never had this problem with over 200 component installs before, and it's a straight civicrm install script. If I could come up with a scenario as to how Joomla would interfere with a component install script in some way, maybe I would know where to start looking. TIA.

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Re: Tried installing from several different directories, get component clash
October 18, 2007, 09:16:20 am
If you unzipped locally and then ftp'd to your site, it's possible that the ftp action used ascii transfer instead of binary, which could mess things up. Suggestions:

1) ftp the zipped file and then unpack it into a temp directory on your site (same as what you did previously, but do the unpacking online)
2) actually install the component on your local computer (you would need to get an AMP package setup and Joomla installed if you don't have it already), then upload the com_civicrm folders (one in components, one in administrator/components), then change the two settings files to your live site connection details (instead of your local computer's).

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Re: Tried installing from several different directories, get component clash
October 18, 2007, 01:04:38 pm
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Any reason you suspect Joomla? Never had this problem with over 200 component installs before, and it's a straight civicrm install script. If I could come up with a scenario as to how Joomla would interfere with a component install script in some way, maybe I would know where to start looking. TIA.

The reason why I figured it might be a J! issue rather than a CiviCRM was simply as I've installed Civi multiple times over the last year without any problem. It would appear that Joomla is somehow trying to install CiviCRM in another component directory space. This just indicated to me that com_installer was screwing up somehow but I've never been under it's cover to get an inkling as to what it's doing. Sorry not to be more precise but that was my gut reaction.

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Re: Tried installing from several different directories, get component clash
October 30, 2007, 02:30:50 pm
hello,

i had the exact same problem.   this solution worked for me.

i uploaded the com_civicrm directory using my ftp program to the cache directory(or whatever random directory you want)
then i wrote that directory path into the component install  (your domain info/html/cache/com_civicrm)


i had orginally uploaded to directly to the public component directory but that was causing problems so that's why i moved it to the cache directory.

hope this helps
paul

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Re: Tried installing from several different directories, get component clash
October 30, 2007, 07:13:03 pm
Either just put it in the root or in the adminstrator/com_install/component/ directory
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