Hello: While trying to install AdaptiveTheme, on 27 February 2012, at 718 A.M., E.S.T. (UTC-5), I got this error message:

"Cannot extract temporary://update-cache-a0c2a752/1442444, not a valid archive."

The URL I used, to get tar.gz file for AdaptiveTheme is:
http://drupal.org/node/1442444

Downloads data shows this was updated on: 2012-Feb-16

My Drupal test site is running properly, on a cPanel Shared server.

I am a Drupal "Newbie". Installed Drupal several days ago. The first time...

Thank you, for your time and for your help! My goal is to get AdaptiveTheme
and Corolla working properly, on my Drupal site.

If there is something I have to do that I have not done, please let me know what to do.

Comments

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented
Category: bug » support

Honestly I don't know the precise details of how Drupal.org packages these archives nor how the built-in theme/module installer actually works.

From the error message I might guess at a permissions issue, although its saying its not a valid archive, which seems odd, because, I believe, Drupal 7 includes its own code for unzipping/un-taring files etc.

Certainly this is not a theme bug, its a condition of either your server or something amiss with the project system on Drupal.org - maybe try again and see if it works (could have been a temporary problem).

Alternatively download the themes and use FTP to get them to the server, install in sites/all/themes, even upload them via Cpanel.

Just to be clear, the URL you need is for the actual archive: http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/adaptivetheme-7.x-2.2.tar.gz

LannyM’s picture

LannyM commented

Good morning Jeff! Before I read your reply, I solved the problem, so I came back here to update this.
I downloaded the tar.gz package to my Linux Desktop, and then uploaded the tar.gz package to the cPanel server and put it into /public_html/drupal/sites/all/themes and I extracted the files there.

Then, when I went into the Drupal Site Administration, AdaptiveTheme was shown there. :-)

You can Close this now. Thank you, for your time and your help! Lanny

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Cool!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.