How would I manually install a module?

[scheinarts]

How would I manually install a module. Do I just copy over the files following the manifest.php file? Or its not that simple?

[scheinarts]

Has any one tried doing this?

since I am on a shared host, the owner of my files is not Apache, but my username’s account in that shared host. Unfortunately, Sugar won’t allow me to install a module via the Module Loader. So my only choice it to install modules manually.

Any help on this?

[ivolator]

Since you are the owner you should be able to chmod the cache dir to 777(it should already be 777!) . this should do it.
You will need to enable apache to write to your modules dir too in order to be able to create the new module's dir and files. custom folder have to be 777 too in some cases (i believe not in new mod install).

To your point though.
You can install manually but you have to play with cache files. You can kind of deduct the places of where the files must go from the structure of the installer, but not all files have description to where to be copied in manifest.
Most of the files go to temp folders and then merged with cache and custom files....toooo much work

[julian]

Hello scheinarts,

If you're concerned about missing parts of the installation (because of what ivolator described), you can try this, although it may be time-consuming:

1) install a local copy of Sugar on your machine
2) install the 3rd-party module through the Module Loader
3) run some kind of script to find all files that have been recently modified
4) copy those files into your production Sugar instance (manually)
5) make sure to run any relevant SQL scripts that come with the module