Profile install is empty

Hi,
Yes, in the download file there is only the "profile" folder, which must not be a big problem if everything else runs smoothly.

Go and get the latest Drupal (7.14) and you will see there is a "profiles" folder (under which you will see minimal,standart and testing folders -that is, profiles); put the "tedxprofile" folder there; setup your new database; (now you also have the sites folder and tedx readme says you must change the default.settings.php file to settings.php file which is under sites/default folder.

Then all you have to to is to call your new site from wherever it is (for example, http://localhost/tedx) and choose the "tedxprofile" as your installation profile... well, theoretically at least!

When I tried this in my local development environment I encountered "Sorry, the profile you have chosen cannot be loaded." message and the installation script refused to go on! This looks like an exception error.

Still, I believe tedx can be manually installed because it needs a few dependency modules and its own modules are included in the distribution. I'll test this as soon as I find time...

Ok thought I would check this profile out a bit and it tends to have issues you can put the profile into the profiles folder and try to run but it fails

So I used the tedx_profile.make file and ran it not catching what was wrong at first.
this downloaded core and a few modules cool I thought now lets install and again no luck.
this time nothing in reference to tedx came up when asking what profile to install. so I pulled the profile over and removed the .make and refreshed wow now it showed up choose tedx profile woops no dice so went looking hard.
I found the problem its because the folder that's extracted to the profiles is called tedxprofile and the .profile .install and .info are called tedx_profile so renameing the folder allowed it to read that part right and at least install drupal.
Cool all installed i thought till I opened it up and wow just a default drupal with the dependency modules installed but none turned on. And wait umm no tedx feature modules hmm well maybe the theme nope. guess the install did not take right I see where the .install is calling to enable modules and themes but it just don't work right.
I most be missing something but for the life of me I can't see what it is.
going to move the theme and modules into the normal sits/all locations and try again will let you know how that goes.

well deleted the whole thing extracted the whole thing drupal core and all in place went a head and added the tedx modules and theme to the sites/all folders put the profile folder where it goes renamed it to match in install and click woops up pops
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in drupal_check_profile() (line 1165 of C:\xampp\htdocs\tedx\includes\install.inc).
wow ok go on input db info next ok got a green check for A PHP code text format has been created.
Looking good now I think ok now a am looking at what I should see.

So after going though this it is usable so just a few things wrong:

1 got to have the profile folder match the name of your .info .install .profile files
2 we got to move the profile themes and modules over to the sites/all themes and modules which shouldn't be
3 got to have the .make file get your profile.

Right now its
1. Get your profile from D.o
2. Run the make file to get the base and dependency modules/libraries
3. Put the profile into the profiles folder of the new drupal site
4. Rename the profile folder from tedxprofile to tedx_profile
5. Move the contents of themes/modules from tedx_profile in to the sites/all/(themes/modules) folders
6. run install.php on your site and hope for the best. :)

I hope that this helps someone who is stuck installing it or helps someone to fix it.

If I did something wrong please let me know :)

Thanks TOm

Thanks. #3 worked.

Instead of "2. Run the make file to get the base and dependency modules/libraries," I manually downloaded the modules listed in tedx_profile.info