Can't install extensions downloaded via Marketplace via Direct package file upload

[sasoriza]

These extensions will include <channel>9cfa79b48aeb6be02dbc357103a4c7e1</channel> instead of <channel>community</channel> so I am getting this error:

CONNECT ERROR: The '9cfa79b48aeb6be02dbc357103a4c7e1' channel is not installed. Please use the MAGE shell script to install the '9cfa79b48aeb6be02dbc357103a4c7e1' channel.

[Tom Robertshaw]

Hmm, that's annoying. Magento have removed the pear installation service as far as I'm aware. 

What happens if you try to add the channel? (I'm expecting this to fail):

./mage channel-add 9cfa79b48aeb6be02dbc357103a4c7e1

And am I understanding correctly that the current error is what you get when you run:

./mage install-file package-you-downloaded.1.0.0.tar.gz

If neither of those works, it's probably going to be quickest to unzip it yourself and copy the files into the necessary locations. It should be in a reasonable folder structure to be able to work out where things need to go. 

[sasoriza]

Adding the channel will give me this error:

channel-add: Could not resolve host: 9cfa79b48aeb6be02dbc357103a4c7e1

I haven't tried installing extension via ssh,only via the Connect Manager, I would think it would give me the same error though. For the moment I am replacing the string with community within the extensions archive.

I really don't understand why the dropped pear, so much for "extending support time of magento 1.9"

[schnere]

Hi,

a bit late, but found this while searching for a solution and it helped me to find my own.

You can add a channel alias to solve this:

./mage channel-alias community 9cfa79b48aeb6be02dbc357103a4c7e1

 After that you should be able to successfully install the module.