Magento

I Installed via SVN but later wants to use admin's PEAR upgrade

For those of you who have installed Magento via SVN method or Manual Install, you’ll realize that you can’t use admin’s remote extensions to do the upgrade.

To fix this problem, there are two ways:

1) Just reinstall everything and use PEAR at the installation page

2) But a kinder method, without you losing your data is to:
- Rename your app/etc/local.xml to app/etc/local.backup and then go to your site again. It will give you the install page again. This time, just run the installer with PEAR -> Beta menu.
- Once the PEAR console screen has installed everything and takes you to database info page, just STOP there.
- Now, rename your app/etc/local.backup back to app/etc/local.xml

Now go back to your site, and you’ll notice that you can now use admin’s remote extensions to perform your upgrades. =)