Recently when updating nextcloud version’s I noticed some apps weren’t making it through to the other side.

In particular the nextcloud social app was missing after an update. When I tried to reinstall it from my clouds appstore it was giving me a failed to extract error.

So this is more of a workaround that I’ve been using in the meantime to manually install and activate it.

The steps

You will need ssh access to your cloud server and root.

 user@cloud:$ sudo su
 root@cloud:# cd /var/www/nextcloud/apps
 # wget https://github.com/nextcloud/social/releases/download/v0.4.2/social-0.4.2.tar.gz
 # tar -zxvf social-0.4.2.tar.gz
 # rm social-0.4.2.tar.gz
 # chown -R www-data:www-data social
 # cd ..
 # sudo -u www-data php occ app:enable social
 

• Just to clarify sudo su to become root.
• Then change to your nextcloud installations apps directory.
• You can use wget to download the apps tar.gz release file from github.
• extract the file with tar -zxvf
• remove the compressed file
• set proper permissions with chown
• use occ to enable app.
  • occ lives in your nextcloud installations root folder and is run from there.
  • sudo -u www-data /var/www/nextcloud/occ