Question about package installation via curl

[Dennis_The_Menace]

Hi folks, I may have a special challenge regarding the installation of packages via curl command in AEM 6.5 (on prem). There are many posts related to "how to curl", but none fitting to this problem.

We use this shell commands in a script for uploading - and in an later step - installing packages.

curl -u $user:$pwd -F package=@"/${package_name}" -F force=true http://$host:$port/crx/packmgr/service/.json/?cmd=upload 

curl -u $user:$pwd -X POST http://$host:$port/crx/packmgr/service/.json/etc/packages/xxx/<package_name>?cmd=install --progress-bar

This works smooth as butter so far. 

But recently we are working on a new site and the new created package from our development is like a main-package.

By this I mean, we can upload and install this package in the packet-manager via curl, but when I look at the result afterwards, there are 5 more sub-packages, that are NOT installed automatically. These "new" packages have always to be installed manually.

When we upload and install the "main"-package directly in the packet-manager GUI, everything works fine. The sub-packages get unpacked and automatically installed.

Is there a special curl method / parameter to get these unpacked sub-packages also directly installed?

[Prince_Shivhare]

Hi @Dennis_The_Menace ,

The only listed CURL commands are in Adobe docs. I think these are the only CURL commands which can be used in the AEM package manager. 

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/administering/operations/curl.html?lan...

Thanks

[arunpatidar · Accepted solution]

Can you try with

curl -u admin:admin -F cmd=install http://localhost:4502/crx/packmgr/service/.json/etc/packages/xxx/<package_name>.zip

Try to add additional parameters if above does not work

cmd: install
recursive: true

[DPrakashRaj]

check this document that will help you in building the curl command for whatever operation you do in aem

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-64/administering/operations/curl.html?lan...

[Dennis_The_Menace]

Thank you all for your suggestion. I tried every single on but had no luck :-/
Maybe it is something special within the package itself ...