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Latest post by on Saturday, 19 March 2022 20:17 CDT
Hi, when I want to update my Joomla 4.1 installation from fof 4.1.1 to 4.1.2, I get the following error message:
Warning - You need Joomla! 4.0.999 or earlier to install this package but you have 4.1.0 installed
However, Joomla 4.1.0 is installed.
I have another site where I installed PHP 8.1 and Joomla 4.1.0, the update from fof went through without any problems.
WBR,
deltapapa
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As we announced back in August 2021, FOF and FEF are deprecated and will be discontinued on August 17th, 2023 when Joomla 3.10 becomes End of Life.
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Hello Nicholas,
Thank you very much for the very detailed explanation.
This is actually a migration from a Joomla 3.10 to 4.0 and then updated to 4.1.
The other side, where I thought the update went through, was a fresh 4.0, there are no more fof and fef there, I was mistaken.
I ran your akeeba/magiceraser over it before the migration, and was wrongly thinking that all outdated frameworks would be deleted with it.
Okay, very good, I'll delete the old fef and fof extensions, that fixes the update problem.
One more question: I still have a library in my Joomla, "FOF-Site-2.4.3-2015-04-22", which I can safely delete, right?
I use the latest extensions from you, so that should actually be superfluous.
Thank you for your quick help as always :-)
Best Regards,
deltapapa
> One more question: I still have a library in my Joomla, "FOF-Site-2.4.3-2015-04-22", which I can safely delete, right?
Yes. That's an ancient version of FOF which we stopped developing in 2015 and discontinued in 2016. This was included in Joomla 3 as part of the Joomla 3 package. You don't need. You can remove it.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!
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