I have a site that's using 1.5 that I'm trying to update.

I'm using the following tutorials:

www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/how-to-migrate-joomla-15-to-25/

www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/how-to-up...min-tools-extension/

However, it's not even allowing me to install the admin tools. I'm getting this error:

"Error! Could not find a Joomla! XML setup file in the package.
Path does not have a valid package."

Hi Heart,

Could be two reasons for that. You could be trying to upload the wrong version of the plugin. Trying to upload a 1.5 plugin to a 2.5 site (or vice versa) will give you that message.

Also if your tmp directory is not set correctly in the global configuration, or if your tmp directory is not writeable you will get this message.

Check the path to the tmp folder in global configuration, be sure it's correct and that the tmp folder actually exists. Make sure it's CHMOD 755. If you have Akeeba Admin tools you can fix the permissions using that.

Check it all out and let us know.
Ed

Hi Anita,

Can you install other extensions? If so, give it another try. Sometimes, there are hiccups in the installation and it gives false negatives for errors.

Kind regards,
Nick

Hi Ed - that's what it was - it wasn't set to CHMOD 755. So I did that...and now I could install admin tools.

Very cool. Nice job making the fix.

Cheers,
Ed