Comments on: Magento Installation Guide for Dreamhost

By: David

David — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:12:09 +0000

Do you have opinions on deployment and code management with Magento? If so, I got some questions…

Drop me a line if you have a minute…

By: Daniel-San

Daniel-San — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:12:02 +0000

Hi, thanks for this article but I got an error halfway:

[dillinger]$ ./pear install mage-core/Mage_Pear_Helpers mage-core/Lib_ZF mage-core/Lib_Varien
Attempting to discover channel “mage-core”…
unknown channel “mage-core” in “mage-core/Mage_Pear_Helpers”
invalid package name/package file “mage-core/Mage_Pear_Helpers”
Cannot initialize ‘mage-core/Mage_Pear_Helpers’, invalid or missing package file
Attempting to discover channel “mage-core”…
unknown channel “mage-core” in “mage-core/Lib_ZF”
invalid package name/package file “mage-core/Lib_ZF”
Cannot initialize ‘mage-core/Lib_ZF’, invalid or missing package file
Attempting to discover channel “mage-core”…
unknown channel “mage-core” in “mage-core/Lib_Varien”
invalid package name/package file “mage-core/Lib_Varien”
Cannot initialize ‘mage-core/Lib_Varien’, invalid or missing package file
Package “mage-core/Mage_Pear_Helpers” is not valid
Package “mage-core/Lib_ZF” is not valid
Package “mage-core/Lib_Varien” is not valid
install failed

Any ideas?

By: tommyrot

tommyrot — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:12:20 +0000

darrell - I haven’t been able to get 1.1.6 to work on dreamhost but your fix got 1.1.4 working just fine. thanks for posting it.

By: FreshWeb

FreshWeb — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:12:17 +0000

rico, Liam actually has a point & name calling doesn’t help anybody out. Programs without documentation are just programs rather than being tools. Its the documentation that makes a program really useful - boring, not sexy, no kudos, hard work - but an essential part of the toolkit.

I’ve been developing Java/Php/Ruby enterprise apps for over 10 years & if I struggle without good documentation how will non-programmers cope?

Liam is correct, every open source project needs somebody to write the documentation - Joomla has several people who seem to specialise in documentation. That’s one reason why Joomla is so popular. We could all learn a lesson from this example. IBM, Oracle, etc employ teams of documentation authors - open source can’t do that but it does need to factor this in.

By: FreedomOSS

FreedomOSS — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:12:34 +0000

I agree with FreshWeb. The problem with open source software is clear and concise documentation for non-techie like Liam.

I have been in the business of open source software and this is the one major stumbling block that users from MS Windows don’t like.

Maybe, we can challenge Liam to do some documentation for Magento to prove his point,i.e, if he likes it.

I think it is time for open source community that if there is a good and viable project for open source development, they have to factor the documentation aspect.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:12:27 +0000

@ Daniel-San:
Check out my comment #16 above. I still haven’t had time to play with the post-1.0 versions of Magento. Hopefully in the coming weeks.

By: Trevor Ginn

Trevor Ginn — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:12:57 +0000

I went through the web install OK, but it seems to only work if it is in the root directory

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By: rico

rico — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:12:50 +0000

Wow. That Liam prick is the sort who needs to get out of this business ASAP. What a sense of entitlement! Advice for ya n00bie…when you give back to open source then you might have a right to gripe, whine, complain, trow a fit if something isn’t easy for you. Try flipping burgers or get a job at one of those medieval restaurants.Stupid prick.

By: darrell

darrell — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:12:21 +0000

I am using version 1.1.6, I tried twice to install on Dreamhost but kept getting errors. The key point in your guide to carry over to 1.1.6 is just to change the php path in the pear file. I used the Full Release install and just changed

#MAGE_PEAR_PHP_BIN=”php”

#MAGE_PEAR_PHP_BIN=”/usr/local/php5/bin/php”

Funny thing is this line is commented out? But my installation didn’t work until I changed this. I didn’t change PHP=php. But if what I did doesn’t work try only changing PHP=. I can access the frontend and the backend. Now it’s time to put this store to the test.