Easiest way to install VirtueMart 2.0?

[Merry]

What is the easiest way to install VirtueMart 2.0? Are there any all-in-one packages with Joomla, VirtueMart, and the All-in-One installer pre-installed? Anything like Fantastico, Softaculous, etc.?

Thanks in advance,
Merry

[jenkinhill]

Never use fantastico or similar for Joomla if you want reliability and an understanding of how things work. We have wasted too may support hours on support for people who used autoinstall systems. And Joomla components have to be installed through Joomla's extension installer/manager anyway.

See http://dev.virtuemart.net/projects/virtuemart/wiki/Installation_of_VirtueMart_2_with_provided_packages

[Merry]

> Never use fantastico or similar for Joomla if you want reliability and an understanding of how things work.

So, you recommend that beginners to VirtueMart use cPanel Database Wizard and File Manager? Or do you recommend something else for reliability and understanding?

Merry

[jenkinhill]

I recommend that users create their database (and users if necessary) in their server control panel, upload the Joomla package by ftp and unpack it on the server using either the cPanel filemanager unpackage option or (if using a zip package) they can use Akkeba's kickstart.php

Once unpacked they can then got though the installation/setup procedure through their browser. Once installed use ftp to remove the installation directory if that option is not included in their Joomla package.

The method is described in Joomla docs, although it refers to J1.7 rather than 2.5 which should now be used. http://docs.joomla.org/Installation

If the new user magaes to do this then at lleast they will already have learned a  little about Joomla installation, ftp and about their cPanel. A manual install takes me about 5 minutes.

Over the years I have tested Fantastico (on a client's server, not my own) and Softaculous. The first gave incorrect file ownerships so needed a chown before VirtueMart could be installed. There were no issues with Softaculous that I saw.

I seem to remember that the ftp layer was introduced into Joomla to solve permissions issues such as those found in auto-installations.