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| A directory with several loose files is not a convenient package for distribution. So the final step is to make a ''package''. This is a compressed archive containing the directory structure and all the files. The package can be in '''ZIP''' format (with a <tt>.zip</tt> extension), in '''TAR-gzip''' format (with a <tt>.tar.gz</tt> extension), or in '''TAR-bz2''' format (with a <tt>.tar.bz2</tt> extension).</translate>
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| If your template is in a directory <tt>mytemplate/</tt> then to make the package you can connect to that directory and use commands like:</translate>
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| * <tt>tar cvvzf ../mytemplate.tar.gz *</tt>
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| * <tt>zip -r ..\mytemplate.zip *.*</tt>
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| === Note to Mac OS X users === <!--T:3-->
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| Note to template developers using Mac OS X systems: the Finder's "compress" menu item produces a usable ZIP format package, but with one catch. It stores the files in '''AppleDouble''' format, adding extra files with names beginning with "<tt>._</tt>". Thus it adds a file named "<tt>._templateDetails.xml</tt>", which Joomla 1.5.x can sometimes misinterpret. The symptom is an error message, "XML Parsing Error at 1:1. Error 4: Empty document". The workaround is to compress from the command line, and set a shell environment variable "COPYFILE_DISABLE" to "true" before using "compress" or "tar". See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSingle_and_AppleDouble_formats AppleDouble] article for more information.</translate>
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| To set an environment variable on a Mac, open a terminal window and type:</translate>
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| Then in the same terminal window, change directories into where your template files reside and issue the zip command. For instance, if your template files have been built in a folder in your personal directory called myTemplate, then you would do the following:</translate>
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| zip -r myTemplate.zip *
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| [[Category:Extension development]]
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