Updating for Drupal 6.27 and XC 6.x-1.3-rc5
The toolkit has four parts: the row of modules, a specific theme, a custom Apache Solr, and an Drupal distribution, which includes all necessary modules (XC and 3rd party ones), the current Drupal 6 core (6.27, with the necessary patch), and the theme. Previously the installation was quite complex, now we worked hard to make it easier.
The process is built on "drush", the Drupal command line tool. (see more: http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/drush).
The installation has two parts: a Drupal part, and a Solr part.
The Drupal part
If you have Drush:
$ cd /var/www # the Apache httpd server's webroot directory
$ drush dl xc_installation-6.x-1.3-rc7 --drupal-project-rename=xc-1.3-rc7
$ cd xc-1.3-rc7
$ drush si xc_installation --db-url=mysqli://[mysql user]:[mysql
pw]@localhost/xc13rc7 --site-name="eXtensible Catalog"
--account-pass=admin
$ chmod a+w sites/default/files
Open http://localhost/xc-1.3-rc7 in your browser. You can log is an admin/admin.
If you don't have Drush:
$ wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/xc_installation-6.x-1.3-rc7-core.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf xc_installation-6.x-1.3-rc7-core.tar.gz
$ mv xc_installation-6.x-1.3-rc7 xc-1.3-rc7
$ mv xc-1.3-rc7 /var/www/
$ cd /var/www/xc-1.3-rc7