[support] Ckeditor not visible by drupal, the dripal version doesn't work

[Ron Dorman]

Hi Augustine,

I suggest you visit: https://drupal.org/download

There you will see the latest version is 7.23 and will find links to
contribe modules, documentation and issue discussions.

Unfortunately, most package installations included in OS distributions
do not provide all that is needed for a good Drupal installation.

If you have more questions after getting the latest Drupal base and
modules needed for your site, post here again.

Ron D.

On 10/9/2013 7:08 PM, A. F. Cano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> New user here.  I've installed drupal7 (7.14-2) as a debian package on wheezy.
> Then, read lots of docs and tried to follow the tutorial here:
>
> https://drupal.org/node/1924660
>
> It says to install new modules, so I successfully installed
>
> admin_menu-7.x-3.0-rc4.tar.gz
> imce-7.x-1.7.tar.gz
>
> into modules/contrib (I had to create contrib).  With the same procedure
> I installed
>
> ckeditor_4.2.1_full.zip
>
> but whereas the other two became visible to drupal and can be enabled,
> ckeditor never shows up.
>
> The above tutorial says "not to use the drupal version", so I downloaded
> the one from ckeditor.com (the home page of ckeditor).
>
> If I point the browser to
>
> http://localhost/drupal7/modules/contrib/ckeditor/samples/
>
> the page comes up just fine.
>
> Of course I've googled the problem, but all the pages are rather old (2009
> or so and some refer to fckeditor).  None of the suggestions found there
> have made any difference.
>
> I also tried the Modules->Install new module within drupal and entered the
> zip file, but it failed, claiming that the package didn't have any *.info
> files.
>
> Then, against the advice in the tutorial, I downloaded the drupal version,
> which is (according to the size and version number) a very minimal sub-set
> and/or obsolete compared to the 4.2.1_full version.
>
>  1300736 Oct  9 16:15 ckeditor_4.2.1_full.zip
>   242724 Oct  9 18:48 ckeditor-7.x-1.13.tar.gz
>
> The latter does have an *.info file and installed properly (it is visible).
> So, either the above tutorial needs to say that using the old/minimalist
> ckeditor from drupal is what should be done, or additional instructions
> need to be given to make the version from ckeditor.com work.
>
> After all that, I thought the drupal/old version would work, but I get this:
>
>   The CKEditor component is not installed correctly. Please go to the
>   CKEditor homepage in order to download the latest version. After that
>   you must extract the files to the sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor
>   or sites/all/libraries/ckeditor directory and make sure that the
>   sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor/ckeditor.js or
>   sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/ckeditor.js file exists. Refer to the
>   README.txt file for more information.
>
> Of course, the version this message tells me to go download is the one I had
> downloaded in the first place and wasn't visible to drupal.
>
> HELP! what am I missing?  Any idea what needs to be done?
>
> Augustine
>