To install this theme you must have a working version of Magento already installed. If you need help installing Magento, follow below sites and tutorials from magento.com, hope everything that you need are there.

• System Requirements - Required system credentials for your magento installation.
• Installation Guide - Installation guide that describes how to install magento2.
• Online Magento 2 guide - Online magento documentation that describes about magento2 in detail.
• Magento Forum - Magento forum site.
• stackoverflow.com - You can also get some useful articles from stackoverflow.

There are two ways to install a Magento Theme:

• Quickstart Installation: Suitable if you have your first installation and want to get a whole new fresh site as our Demo.
• Manual Installation (including Theme Installation): Suitable if your store is full with content that you don't want to overwrite.

MagenTech provides SM Quickstart package for each theme which aims to ease the installation for users. If you plan to start your site from the beginning, it will help you save much time of installing and configuring.

• Step 1: Download the quickstart package named as sm_venuse_quickstart_pl_m2.3.1_v1.0.0
• Step 2: Upload and Extract the whole Quickstart package to your server. In Quickstart folder you will see the extracted folder that include all sample data


Note: You can extract package by this command: unzip file.zip


• Step 3: Create a Database for your Magento site

  Important!

  You need to remember the database name to use in the next steps
  
• Step 4: Import database sample_data.sql under the folder sm_venuse_quickstart_pl_m2.3.1_v1.0.0\data_quickstart

  Note: You can import database by run this command mysql -u root -p database_name < sample_data.sql

  

  Important!

  Sometimes your site is broken after run this command, it's because of you ran this command with the incorrect user. If your site was broken, it's very important to set the file's permissions and ownership correctly, after run this command line. You can refer this command chown -R <owner>:<group> <magento root directory path>.
  Typical examples:
  chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/sm_venuse
  
  
• Step 5: Run installation process by opening browser and navigate to your URL.

  

• Step 6: Choose Start Readiness Check. After Start Readiness Check is completed, select Next .

  

  When you click on "Start Readiness Check",the error could occur like the below image

  

  You need to open your php.ini file and remove semicolon (;) in front of the following lines:

  With window:

  ;extension=php_intl.dll

  ;extension=php_xsl.dll

  With linux:

  ;extension=php_intl.os

  ;extension=php_xsl.os

  After modification, need to save the file(php.ini) as well as need to restart the Apache Server and check out the result.
• Step 7: Enter server information and database name in step 2 and then click on Next.

  

• Step 8: Put your website link and continue to click on Next.

  

• Step 9: Customize your store: you can choose Time Zone, Currency and Languages.

  

• Step 10: You need to Create Admin Account. Enter your information and move to the next step.

  

• Step 11: In this step, you should click on the button: Install Now.

  

  It will take some minutes to complete this installation process. If your window is the same as below, CONGRAT! You install this quickstart package successfully

  

  After clicking on the button, the Admin Login screen will be opened and you can use admin credentials to login on this screen. It will open Admin panel after successful authentication.

  

  
  

• Step 1: Please download 'sm_venuse_theme_m2.1.x-2.3.x_v1.0.0.zip' file and upload file .zip to the root of your magento site on your server.
  
  Then unzip file .zip by this command: unzip file.zip
  
• Step 2: Active SM Extensions, open command line in folder root of magento and run commands via ssh using putty or others php bin/magento setup:upgrade

  

  
  

  Important!

  Sometimes your site is broken, after run this command, it's because of you ran this command with the incorrect user. If your site was broken, it's very important to set the file's permissions and ownership correctly, after run this command line. You can refer this command chown -R <owner>:<group> <magento root directory path>.
  Typical examples:
  chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/sm_venuse
  
• Step 3: Go to admin panel, disable all cache related section that you have in your magento.

  

  
  
• Step 4: Select "Sm Amabook" theme in Content > Design > Configuration > Edit Default Store > Select "Sm Amabook" theme.

  

• Step 5: Click "Save Configuration" button to save your changes.

We have created One Click Installation for users to quickly set up your theme the same way our demo is set up.

In order to do demo installation, you should import Static Blocks, CMS Pages and Demo in Stores>> Settings>> Configuration >> MagenTech.COM >> SM Amabook >> Theme Installation.

1. Press the buttons named 'Static Blocks' and 'Pages' to import all default blocks and pages.

2. Click "Demo X" button to install demo version that you prefer to install. Then click "Save Config" button.

3. Please remember that: If you have imported these Static Blocks, Pages successfully, you would have all blocks and pages provided with this theme and you do not need to create any static blocks or pages manually as the following instruction of this document.

4. Flush Cache: After successfully import your demo, save Theme Settings and Design Settings and clear the cache by using this command as php bin/magento cache:flush in Command Prompt. Or you could go to System >> Tools >> Cache Management, click 'Flush Cache Storage' button to flush all the cache.

5. Finally, go to front-end to view demo.