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I Need Help With a Joomla 1.5 Theme Installation

by Ouroboros
6 replies
I finally bit the bullet and bought a domain name and installed Joomla 1.5 for my local portal project.

I'm very new to the Joomla backend but I was able to install a theme that was a .zip file by extracting it on my harddrive to the point I was past the documentation and all that. It wouldn't load till I parsed out the extra stuff but loaded the 1.5 zip file easily after that.

The problem is, that's not the theme I want, just a run through. The theme I want is a .rar file and I can't seem to get it to upload correctly. I don't have the .rar "unzipper" on my laptop because I didn't like the damn thing and all the overhead it added to my downloads.

I guess my question is this. If I download the (damn) .rar extracter(sp?) and find my desired theme inside the .rar package somewhere, will the joomla admin panel be able to extract the resulting .rar theme ?

Does that make any sense?

Thanks,
Steve
#installation #joomla #theme
  • Profile picture of the author Janet Sawyer
    Steve,

    Does your computer run on xp or above?

    If so then find a rar unzipper... that you are happy with.

    unzip to your local computer.

    If you are running xp or vista, then just choose send to zip folder.
    Upload that zip folder to your Joomla installation and voila!

    Joomla, when I used to do lots of it, worked fantastically well with zip files.

    Hope that helps.

    Kindest regards,

    Janet Sawyer
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