Forum .LRN Q&A: Newbie install... acs-admin/apm/package-load can't locate dotLrn packages

Hello!

I am trying to install dotLrn... I've made it to the point where openACS is installed. (VERY cool, by the way...)

I was not able to download the source through CVS so I downloaded it from the website:
https://openacs.org/projects/dotlrn/download/one-revision?revision_id=320323

openACS seems to have installed just fine, but when I go to the acs-admin/apm it does not find any packages. I believe it is looking for files with a .apm suffix...?

I used the acs-admin/apm/package-load and point it the path where I thought the packages were: /web/packages which contains:
CVS
acs-admin
acs-api-browser
acs-authentication
acs-automated-testing
acs-bootstrap-installer
acs-content-repository
acs-core-docs
acs-datetime
acs-developer-support
acs-events
acs-kernel
acs-lang
acs-mail
acs-mail-lite
acs-messaging
acs-reference
acs-service-contract
acs-subsite
acs-tcl
acs-templating
attachments
bm-portlet
bulk-mail
calendar
calendar-portlet
categories
curriculum
curriculum-portlet
dotlrn
dotlrn-admin
dotlrn-bm
dotlrn-calendar
dotlrn-curriculum
dotlrn-dotlrn
dotlrn-faq
dotlrn-forums
dotlrn-fs
dotlrn-homework
dotlrn-news
dotlrn-news-aggregator
dotlrn-portlet
dotlrn-static
dotlrn-survey
dotlrn-syllabus
dotlrn-weblogger
faq
faq-portlet
file-storage
forums
forums-portlet
fs-portlet
general-comments
lars-blogger
new-portal
news
news-aggregator
news-aggregator-portlet
news-portlet
notifications
oacs-dav
profile-provider
ref-timezones
rss-support
search
static-portlet
survey
survey-portlet
trackback
user-preferences
user-profile
weblogger-portlet
workflow
xml-rpc

Any thoughts...?
Here's a little info:
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uname -aLinux miigf 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 #5 SMP Wed Oct 26 20:07:32 PDT 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Installed Services:
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Package Version
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ACS Reference Data 5.1.4
API Browser 5.1.4
Authentication 5.1.4
Automated Testing 5.1.4
Bootstrap Installer 5.1.4
Content Repository 5.2.0d18
Documentation 5.1.4
Kernel 5.2.0d10
Localization 5.1.5d1
Mail 5.2.0d2
Messaging 5.1.4
Reference Data - Timezone 5.2.0d2
Service Contracts 5.1.5d2
Site-Wide Administration 5.2.0d1
Subsite 5.2.0a2
Tcl Library 5.2.0d5
Templating 5.2.0d1

Installed Applications:
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Package Version
Search 5.2.0d4

Thanks in advance,

-al

If you downloaded a .LRN distribution it should have automatically installed .LRN along with initial OpenACS install. There is a file called install.xml that should appear in the root of the openacs/.lrn source tree that contains the instructions to setup .LRN.
Hello, thank you for the reply, using Firefox, reading that file it gave me:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///local/installs/unx/dotlrn/dotlrn-2.1.3/install.xml
Line Number 28, Column 125: package="acs-bootstrap-installer" name="post_installation_message" value="When the server restarts click here to configure .LRN"/>
-------------------------------------------------------------^

Sorry to be a pain...

Next step would be to look in the openacs install directory for log/error.log and check for errors during the install. I am surprised if there is a parsing error of the install.xml. What version of .LRN did you download? It appears to have a bug.
I downloaded: .LRN 2.1.3 2.1.3 from:
https://openacs.org/projects/dotlrn/download/download/dotlrn-2.1.3.tar.gz?revision_id=320323

Do you have an md5sum of what the tar ball is suppose to be?
This is what I get:
f8616313b779cfad679b6a2d82b9a065 dotlrn-2.1.3.tar.gz

Thanks again!

-al

I re-downloaded the dotLrn tarball from:
https://openacs.org/projects/dotlrn/download/download/dotlrn-2.1.3.tar.gz?revision_id=320323

I came up with the same md5sum:
f8616313b779cfad679b6a2d82b9a065 dotlrn-2.1.3.tar.gz

I get the same error with install.xml:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///local/installs/unx/dotlrn-2.1.3/dotlrn-2.1.3/install.xml
Line Number 28, Column 125:

I followed the install directions from:
https://openacs.org/doc/current/dotlrn/dotlrn-install