Error when enabling Debut Article

This is probably because you have an existing field of the same name as one of the fields installed by debut_article.

If you delete that field before enabling debut_article, the error should disappear. Of course, you may want to keep the field.

Yep, it's confusing and we need to put some documentation in place. Did you install a new install with the standard profile selected? If so, Drupal core will have created fields, including field_image, that conflict with Debut Article.

To fix this, do one of the following:

• Download and use the Open Outreach distribution, or
• Install Drupal using the minimal installation profile, which doesn't install the article content type or the image field, or
• Use the standard Drupal installation profile but delete the article content type and any other instance of field_image

How to fix if the Open Outreach distribution install is not suitable for me?

See my response in #3, which gives two other approaches you could take. Please let me know if more detail is needed.

"(line 231 of /home/dre2phresh/Sites/www/phreshr.tv/modules/field/field.crud.inc)." why is "Sites" capitalized? it should be "sites" instead

This bug can be fixed following an approach used in media_gallery.install, which detects existing fields and throws a hook_requirements() error if there's an existing field with the same name but a different type. Arguably this should go in features, but a workaround in debut_article and other debut features meanwhile is important.

Would deleting the article content type and then re-creating it with different field names eg, (article_image, article_body, article_tags) etc work?

Resolved this by changing the name of the field we create (and converting its type from media to image).