Unable to move file to packages directory-socialengine addons core plugin

Question

While uploading the socialengine addon's core plugin (module-seaocore-4.2.9p1.tar) through package manager, I am getting an error

 Unable to move file to packages directory. 
Please set chmod 0777 on the temporary/package/archives directory.

But, if we try to upload any other plugin, it will get extracted in the normal way.

I have checked the file permission and it is already 777.

Answer 1

I fixed this issue by uplading the tar file to temporary/package/packages and extracted it to the folder with the name module-seaocore-4.2.9p1. Then deleted the tar file and went to package manager and installed the plugin.

Answer 2

Uploading the tar to temporary/package/packages and extracting it into a folder (final path: temporary/package/packages/module-seaocore-4.2.9p1) does not always work for me.

However, the following steps do seem to work if you have chmod 777 permission set on both your temporary/package/packages and temporary/packages/archives directories:

1. Try the installation and let it fail with the above error message

2. Upload the tar to temporary/package/archives

3. Go back to the Manage Packages & Plugins screen in the SE admin panel, and then click Install New Packages

4. It will find the tar in temporary/package/archives, process the extraction to temporary/package/packages, and let you install

I've replicated this a number of times now, and it seems to work.

Answer 3

I got the solution for this,

Extract the ".tar file" and then open the "applications" folder and you will find 3 folder "languages, modules, packages" copy all the files and folders you find in these folders and paste them to the respective "application" folder in your working directory,

remember

After copying them again give the chmod - R 0777 permission to you package directory of working folder.

sudo chmod -R 0777 packages/

Now you can find an option to install the plugin in "Manage Plugin" section in the admin pannel.