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Ok you so you downloaded a Skin for ikonboard and just can't get it to install, no worries as here I will show you how you can manually install it.
To start with untar your skin to a folder on your local computer, let's say we had a skin called SKIN-test.tar, when untared it should have a directory structure like this.
Now ftp to where you have your forum installed and open the folder /cgi-bin/Skin
there you should see the default folder and if you have any other skins
installed they will have a name like /cgi-bin/Skin/SKIN-2 with the number increasing
for each new skin. Now make a new folder for your new skin and if you don't have
any other skins installed name it SKIN-2 or if you have other skins installed
give it the next higher number.
Now copy the files from the modules folder that you have on your local computer, see picture above (just the files not the folder) to the new SKIN folder you just made.
Now on your ftp go to your iB_html/non-cgi/Skin folder and make another SKIN folder with the same number that you used for the one in the step above and copy the files from html folder on your local computer to it then copy the two sub folders images and Posticons to it also.
Now in your ftp open the file /cgi-bin/Data/Boardinfo.cgi
and look for the line 'SKINS' => q!1:Default:Standard Ikonboard Skin
!,
You may have more Skins listed in the line if you have other skins installed but
using the above format you would add a second like so.
''SKINS' => q!1:Default:Standard Ikonboard Skin|&|2:SKIN-2:test !,
|&| is the separator for the skin list, 2: is the position it will show in the skin list, SKIN-2 is the name of the folder for the skin, :test is the name displayed for the skin in the skin list, and !, is the line terminator.
Now for the last step, open the file /cgi-bin/Skin/Your new skin folder/Styles.pm and replace all the SKIN-# with the number of your new folder. This is very easy to do with notepad using the replace option.
That's all there is to it, your new skin should be installed and working.
Since you are creating the folders and uploading the files you will be the owner and they should have your default permissions set for your folders, if you have any problems with them then chmod the one in the cgi-bin/Skin folder to 0755 and all the modules to 0755 and the ones on the iB_html/non-cgi/Skin folder to 0777 and everything should work fine.
I hope this helps so of you getting those hard to install skins working.