You should probably try
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Extension+Tweak
with XE extensions (search for "enterprise" in Installed Extensions in
administration and open details to find the id).

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Thomas Mortagne
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Charlie Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thomas,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick reply.  Here is a little more background on our
>> install.  We have a test server set up with a mirror of production and that
>> is where I am doing the upgrade testing, so I can go back to the current 6.3
>> at any time and redo the process till I get it right. We have a main wiki
>> with 7 or 8 subwikis.  Despite many different attempts, I have never been
>> able to get the Distribution Wizard to appear.   So we have taken to just
>> deploying the latest War file and then using the Extension Updater.  I
>> generally chose 'Check for updates on farm'.  This then provides me with a
>> list of extension that are out of date.  I then go through and update every
>> extension that is out of date.  This had worked with every upgrade I have
>> tried until 6.4.2.  It worked with 6.4.1 in our test environment, but we
>> didn't actually go to 6.4.1 in production because of some the issues present
>> in 6.4.1.
>>
>> What is the best option here for the place we are at?  Should I try to get
>> the Distribution Wizard to appear so that it will handle the upgrade from
>> 6.3 to 6.4.2?  If so, are there any suggestions on how to do this?
>>
>> Or would it be better to try and clean things out first?  Im not quite sure
>> how to determine which installed extensions don't make sense. Also, when you
>> say clean up, how should I do that?  For most of the extensions I only have
>> Uninstall and Downgrade options.  (not sure why there are Downgrade options,
>> as I have only seen in that when trying to go to 6.4.2).
>
> I fixed various inconsistencies check in 6.4.2 regarding installed
> extensions and in your case it found quite a mess since you seems to
> have the all in one UI installed in one wiki and
> org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes-ui extension (which
> is part of the standard all in one XAR too and so they conflict with
> each other) which is installed in root namespace ("On farm" option in
> the install UI). You should have various warnings about that in the
> log at startup.
>
> So it all depends why it's like this and which one is right exactly.
> If you want to go back to a more standard state you can send me the
> content of <permdir>/xwiki/extension/repository if you want me to look
> at it and maybe cleanup a bit directly (it might be a bit big if you
> installed lots of extensions).
>
> The difference you will have with Distribution Wizard regarding farm
> upgrade is that it's not upgrading the whole farm in a single job, you
> upgrade the main wiki in a first step and then you take care of other
> wikis either in a following step or you go to each one to have a
> dedicated Distribution Wizard (in case each or some wikis have
> different admins like in http://myxwiki.org farm for example).
>
>>
>> Thanks for the help!
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Mortagne
>> Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 3:18 AM
>> To: XWiki Users
>> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Cannot upgrade Enterprise UI Extension to 6.4.2
>>
>> You have several very weird things in your setup:
>> * first as you can see in the error it seems like you installed
>> org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes-ui at farm level which is
>> a really unusual thing to do for a XAR and especially for a XAR which is a
>> standard XE dependency
>> * this extension is 6.3 which mean you did not fully upgraded from 6.3 to
>> 6.4.1 and you have some leftover for some reason
>> * as far as I understand you are not using the Distribution Wizard (as
>> otherwise you wouldn't have ended up with XWiki Enterprise - UI - Main Wiki
>> All and at all or some standard extension installed at farm level), is there
>> a specific reason for that ?
>>
>> I ideally I would suggest to cleanup a bit (look at installed extension and
>> try to clean anything that don't make much sense like
>> 6.3 standard extension leftover or standard extension installed at farm
>> level instead of in the wiki they are used) and then use the Distribution
>> Wizard to so a proper upgrade but I don't know your constraints.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Charlie Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am using the Extension Updater to upgrade our XWiki instance from
>>> 6.3 to
>>> 6.4.2  Whenever I try to upgrade the 'XWiki Enterprise - UI - Main Wiki
>> All'
>>> package, I get the following error:
>>>
>>> *         An extension with feature
>>> [org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes-ui] is already
>>> installed on root namespace
>>> ([org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-appwithinminutes-ui-6.3])
>>>
>>> class org.xwiki.extension.InstallException: Failed to resolve
>>> extension at
>>> org.xwiki.extension.job.internal.AbstractInstallPlanJob.installExtensi
>>> on(Abs
>>> tractInstallPlanJob.java:770) at
>>> org.xwiki.extension.job.internal.AbstractInstallPlanJob.installExtensi
>>> on(Abs
>>> tractInstallPlanJob.java:393) at
>>> org.xwiki.extension.job.internal.AbstractInstallPlanJob.installExtensi
>>> on(Abs
>>> tractInstallPlanJob.java:290) at
>>> org.xwiki.extension.job.internal.AbstractInstallPlanJob.start(Abstract
>>> Instal
>>> lPlanJob.java:220) at
>>> org.xwiki.extension.job.internal.InstallPlanJob.runInternal(InstallPla
>>> nJob.j
>>> ava:88) at
>>> org.xwiki.job.internal.AbstractJob.runInContext(AbstractJob.java:209)
>>> at
>>> org.xwiki.job.internal.AbstractJob.run(AbstractJob.java:192)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have tried to upgrade from 6.3 to 6.4.1 first and then upgrade from
>>> 6.4.1 to 6.4.2, but I still get the same issue when going from 6.4.1 to
>> 6.4.2.
>>> Going from 6.3 to 6.4.1 works fine.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are there any workarounds to get Enterprise UI package to upgrade, or
>>> will this be something that is fixed in next release?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
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>>
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