{"id":692,"date":"2013-06-27T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invisiblezero.net\/?p=692"},"modified":"2013-06-27T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T08:14:09","slug":"magento-installing-extensions-via-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/magento-installing-extensions-via-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Magento &#8211; Installing Extensions via Command Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-693\" alt=\"install-banner\" src=\"https:\/\/ndthanh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/install-banner.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"118\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like the idea of having to change permissions of my magento install to add on new extensions. There&#8217;re some services that allow you to download extension in compressed file like http:\/\/freegento.com\/ddl-magento-extension.php , so you will only need to extract then copy&amp;paste to your Magento installation folder, this is also a pain to me, especially when i&#8217;m on a Mac (yes, Mac is bad at merging files) . Thanks to Magento, we have command line for this type of work.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So here is how to do via Terminal (shell, ssh, or whatever \u2026). Make sure you know how to use terminal and type command properly .<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, navigate to base magento directory<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\ncd \/path\/to\/your\/magento\/directory\n<\/pre>\n<p>Then you may need to install connect20 community channel<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n.\/mage mage-setup\n.\/mage -V\n.\/mage list-channels\n<\/pre>\n<p>From this point, we have 2 options to install extension, locally or via community channel<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n.\/mage install &lt;channelName&gt; &lt;packageName&gt;\n# install using compressed extension\n.\/mage install-file &lt;path\/to\/file&gt;\n<\/pre>\n<p>for example<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n# install from channel\n.\/mage install connect20.magentocommerce.com\/community Nexcessnet_Turpentine\n# install locally\n.\/mage install-file ~\/Downloads\/Ves_MiniCart-1.1.0.tgz\n<\/pre>\n<p>You can get packageName by clicking on &#8216;Install now&#8217; button, then get extension key of Magento Connect 2.0, you will have a url like this :<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/connect20.magentocommerce.com\/community\/Nexcessnet_Turpentine<br \/>\nPackage name is last part of URL, in this case we have Nexcessnet_Turpentine<\/p>\n<p>Finally, you should do a chown -R on your directories to whatever your\u2019s is (visit this <a href=\"https:\/\/ndthanh.net\/unix-recursively-chmod-only-directories-or-files\/\">post<\/a>) , otherwise they may have root:root<\/p>\n<p>I was running this on magento 1.6 using version 2.0 of magento connect to get the extension info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like the idea of having to change permissions of my magento install to add on new extensions. There&#8217;re some services that allow you to download extension in compressed file like http:\/\/freegento.com\/ddl-magento-extension.php , so you will only need to extract then copy&amp;paste to your Magento installation folder, this is also a pain to me,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/magento-installing-extensions-via-command-line\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,60],"tags":[59,62,51,64],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":5,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ndthanh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}