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</div><div class="sect2"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id1343"></a>Installing OpenACS packages</h3></div></div></div><p>An OpenACS package extends your website and lets it do
things it was not able to do before. You can have a weblog, a
forums, a calendar, or even do sophisticated project-management
via your website.</p><p>After you've installed OpenACS, you can congratulate
yourself for a job well done. Then, you'll probably want to
install a couple of packages.</p><p>To install packages, you have to be an administrator on
the OpenACS webserver. Log in, and you'll see a link to Admin or
the Control Panel. Click on that, then click on 'Install
software'. Packages are sometimes also referred to as
applications or software.</p><p>At this point, you'll need to determine whether or not
you're able to install from the repository, or whether you
should install from local files.</p><p>Basically, if you have a local CVS repository, or have
custom code, you need to install from 'Local Files'. Otherwise,
you can install from the OpenACS repository</p><p>If you want to install new packages, click on 'Install
from Repository' or 'Install from Local'. Select the package,
and click 'Install selected applications'. The system will check
to make sure you have all necessary packages that the package
you want depends on. If you're installing from Local Files, and
you are missing any packages, you may have to add the packages
your desired package depends on:
<a class="xref" href="upgrade-openacs-files.html" title="Upgrading the OpenACS files">the section called “Upgrading the OpenACS files”</a>
</p><p>If you run into any errors at all, check your
/var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/log/error.log file, and
post your error on the OpenACS forums</p><p>Once the package has been installed, then you will need to
'mount' the package. The next section handles that.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="configuring-new-site.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="configuring-mounting-packages.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left">Chapter 4. Configuring a new OpenACS Site </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="configuring-new-site.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> Mounting OpenACS packages</td></tr></table><hr><address><a href="mailto:docs@openacs.org">docs@openacs.org</a></address></div><a name="comments"></a></body></html>