Priority: Normal
Current State: Closed
Released In: 1.1.0
Target Release: minor
Applies To: Engine
Component: Configure
Branches:
The generic extension installer seems to work fine.
- Add to MANIFEST
- Update for common copyright
- Improve usage documentation a bit and handle if called without extension name.
The generic installer is the standard template installer, with the minor addition of supporting the extension name as an argument. With both the custom and generic installers, the package installer code can download an updated installer if required.
For example, to install an extension, such as
GenPDFAddOn, the two options are:
Install using downloaded installer.
- Download GenPDFAddOn_installer into the root of the Foswiki installation
- Run GenPDFAddOn_installer
perl GenPDFAddOn_installer
- Package installer will download the extension archive from repository location contained within the custom installer file, and proceed with installation
Install using generic installer
Note: The generic installer will only download extensions from the default Foswiki Extensions repository. If an alternate location is required, the custom installer or web installer must be used!
perl tools/extension_installer GenPDFAddOn install
- Package installer will download the GenPDFAddOn_installer, along with the extension archive and proceed with installation.
As with the custom installers, the generic installer can be used to uninstall an extension
perl tools/extension_installer GenPDFAddOn uninstall
For further information, use the
usage
command.
perl tools/extension_installer usage
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GeorgeClark - 12 Jun 2010