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ronthatiam

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Another component is already using directory
April 02, 2008, 01:38:56 pm
Thank you, Brian for your advice yesterday. (See my post below titled: Cannot execute DROP TABLE IF EXISTS civicrm_relationship: DB Error: constraint v)

I deleted the civicrm tables. Deleted components/com_civicrm. Deleted com_installer/component/com_civicrm. Deleted the zip file too, since a version 2.0.2 is out today.
Downloaded 2.0.2, unzipped, installed from joomla.

During the installation it gave me this:
Upload new component - Error
Another component is already using directory: "/home/crmd/www/htdocs/components/com_civicrm/"
[ Continue ... ]

I checked: it had not created tables. And get this: it had not created /home/crmd/www/htdocs/components/com_civicrm/.
htdocs/components/com_civicrm DOES NOT EXIST.
But the installation program thinks it does and that some other component is already using it.

So, any ideas as to what the problem is?

Hosted on a shared VPS server at Verio.

Thank You,

RonThatIAm

ronthatiam

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Re: Another component is already using directory
April 02, 2008, 01:56:43 pm
SOLVED! Thanks to Brian lcdweb once again.
Well, it was only AFTER I started this topic that I thought to search the forums for the same thing... Oh well.
But the good news is that I found an answer that solved my problem.
See this post:
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,1783.msg7712.html#msg7712
Look for com_civicrm in BOTH /components/ AND /administrator/components/ and delete the directories if they exist. Then try reinstalling.
by Brian lcdweb

The trick was looking in BOTH directories, as Brian said above.

Thanks again, Brian.

RonThatIAm
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