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[mustanglex]

I'm posting this for those who run into problems trying to install through the upload feature. My clients hosting company has a timeout limit which cause MySQL database errors when I tried to use the upload feature to install the component. I search and could not find anywhere that explains how to install manually. If there is such a document, it is not easily accessible.

Here are the simple steps
1) Unzip the file on your computer into a folder (I usually just unzip it into the folder the zip file is called)

2) Using an FTP program, go to administrator/components folder and create a new folder called com_jcalpro
3) Upload all items in the folder you unzipped into the new folder you created.

4) If you had problems trying to install this component before, you may have a folder under (your joomla root folder)/components called com_jcalpro. Delete that folder first before continuing.

5) Log into administrator -> Installers -> Components
In the field under Install from directory
Delete all path after administrator/

6) Enter components/com_jcalpro/install.jcalpro.php
so your path should look something like

root_path/administrator/components/com_jcalpro/install.jcalpro.php

Click Install.

It should work. I hope this helps

[Dana9Marie]

Thanks very much for these instructions, it helped me with my install problem.

I'd like to add for anyone else that I had to do some tweaking to the steps in order for it to work for me. 
I don't know if my tweaks will be needed for everybody, so I suggest they try the first set of instructions first and if they don't work, then try my tweaks.

1. The folder to point to is the one with the jcalpro.xml file, not the .php, it's one directory up, and you don't need to include the filename in the path, it will find the .xml on its own.
2. Don't create and upload the zipped files to the com_jcalpro folder because when you go to install the component, it will say the directory is in use by another component. 
   2a. What I had to do was create another folder outside the com_jcalpro folder (I just made up the name 'jcal') and MOVED the unzipped com_jcalpro folder inside it so that the folder wouldn't already exist where Joomla needs to put it.  Then I pointed to the new directory that contained the .xml file, so in my case the path would have been:
/administrator/components/jcal/com_jcalpro

I wasn't sure if this would work, so I crossed my fingers (a tradition it seems when installing new components), but VOILA! it worked!

So thanks so much for the tip and I hope this helps anyone else.

Dana-Marie