The following instructions cover installation of additional Plone products, distributed in a .zip, tar.gz or .tgz file, on Plone 2 and non-buildout Plone 3 instances in Linux.
Step 1. Download and Unpack the product
Download products package archive (e.g. qSEOptimizer-1.6.1.tar.gz) and unpack this archive to see qSEOptimizer folder with python files inside.
Step 2. Zope Installation
Before you start Zope Installation you have to get access to the filesystem of your Zope Instance. After you have been connected to the file system of your instance - select data1 the folder
Open Products folder:
See the list of the products you have in your instance:
Copy qSEOptimizer products folder that you extracted from the downloaded product archive to the Products folder of your instance.
NOTE: In case, this product was initially installed, but now you want just to upgrade it with a newer version, first delete the older version and only after that copy the new one.
After you have uploaded the necessary product to Products folder of your instance, go to Control Panel of Zope Management Interface (http://username.quintagroup.com/Control_Panel/manage) and click on the Restart button to have the products you've uploaded installed by the system:
Step 3. Plone Installation
Finally, you have to activate this new product in Plone: install in with QuickInstaller:
- go to the Plone Site Setup -> Add/Remove Products
- select the product among products available for install and press the Install button