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I am not an expert of Drupal, but I am trying to configure a site with Drupal Commerce, and in particular, the PayPal module.

I need the following two patches: https://www.drupal.org/node/2415489 https://www.drupal.org/node/2415501 that, if I understood correctly they are not merged into the paypal module yet.

So, what I did is to manually download the PayPal module, manually apply the patches (unfortunately they conflict each other, so I applied one with the patch command and the other by manually diff the files) and I tar.gz everything.

The resultant module is here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7968745/commerce_paypal-7.x.2.3.tar.gz

Now, if I try to install this module I get the following error: 

Unable to create directory 'temporary://update-extraction-bde81194/.'

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But if I try to install any other module, it works.

BTW: I don't know if this is relevant or not. Before installing my custom-made module, I disabled and uninstalled the PayPal module, but if now I look for the modules in my Drupal installation I still find the PayPal module (but disabled)

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You have to make sure that the temporary directory is configured at admin/config/media/file-system is writable.

In my case /tmp is writable, as per the settings in the screenshot below.

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  • Shouldn't this apply also to "official" modules, i.e. the one I copy the link directly from the Drupal website? because they work. Furthermore, I tried to move from /tmp to tmp as I'm using an hosting provider
    – Francesco
    Commented Oct 5, 2016 at 10:19
  • Any ideas? Should I wait that those patches get integrated into the main code, so I can directly update the module? Official modules get installed without any problem, so I don't think it is a problem of file system permisssion
    – Francesco
    Commented Oct 29, 2016 at 7:06

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