By conrad4784 on

Hello Im new to drupal and I don't run linux on my sytem I have a vista. (my server is running linux) How can I unzip the files before installing them in the themes folder in my server. Also is that right I just need to unzip the theme and upload the themes into the themes folder in my server?
thank you,
conrad4784

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igorjava’s picture

igorjava commented

Hi,
I unzipp them usually on Linux by doing following. First upload them there then type this for example

tar -xvvzf flashnode-6.x-3.0.tar.gz

hit enter and it will unzipp your files.

Hope it helps:)

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alliax commented

use the free software 7-zip :
it will first uncompress the GZIP (.GZ) and then you can double click on the uncompressed archive (.TAR) to see the files.

That's what you have to upload to your /sites/all/themes/ folder, don't put them in /themes/ that's sloppy.

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conrad4784 commented

thank you, 7 zip was great

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kotul commented

If you know some linux BASH then

1. download a program called putty
2. enter in your server name
3. then your username and password when it asks

and you can access your server like that,

4. then navigate to your themes folder
5. type in wget and copy and paste the download link for the theme you want
6. type in "tar -xvzf" followed by the theme name

it should then be available to access through your drupal themes

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alliax commented

That's assuming he has SSH access to his web server, but it's not the case in most of sharing hosting, although there are good web hosting companies which allows SSH access on sharing hosting accounts.