Unable to move file to packages directory-socialengine addons core plugin

Question

While uploading the socialengine addon's core plugin (module-seaocore-4.2.9p1.tar) through package manager, I am getting an error

 Unable to move file to packages directory. 
Please set chmod 0777 on the temporary/package/archives directory.

But, if we try to upload any other plugin, it will get extracted in the normal way.

I have checked the file permission and it is already 777.

Answer 1

Uploading the tar to temporary/package/packages and extracting it into a folder (final path: temporary/package/packages/module-seaocore-4.2.9p1) does not always work for me.

However, the following steps do seem to work if you have chmod 777 permission set on both your temporary/package/packages and temporary/packages/archives directories:

1. Try the installation and let it fail with the above error message

2. Upload the tar to temporary/package/archives

3. Go back to the Manage Packages & Plugins screen in the SE admin panel, and then click Install New Packages

4. It will find the tar in temporary/package/archives, process the extraction to temporary/package/packages, and let you install

I've replicated this a number of times now, and it seems to work.

Answer 2

I fixed this issue by uplading the tar file to temporary/package/packages and extracted it to the folder with the name module-seaocore-4.2.9p1. Then deleted the tar file and went to package manager and installed the plugin.