Alon Swartz's picture

Hey Ron,
What Liraz mentioned should have worked, try the following:
# check that components is owned by www-data
ls -l /usr/share/joomla15

# if not, make it so
chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/joomla15/components

# restart apache (although I can't see why it would make a difference)
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
The upcoming release should be out in a couple of days, as soon as we squash some last minute bugs and get all of them uploaded...