[CWB] Confusing instruction in command help

[Andrés Chandía]

Or, what am I doing wrong?
I have indexed a corpus via terminal, if I go to the web interface and go
to Admin Control Panel → Install new corpus → Click here to install a
corpus you have already indexed in CWB:
Specify the corpus “mycorpusname”
Enter the full descriptive name of the corpus "My full descriptive name"
stylesheet yellow
Install corpus with settings above
and everything goes ok.

Then I uninstall it form the web interface and check there is no trace in
CQPWeb directory nor in CQPWeb database

Now I try using the install-corpus.php script
cd /cqpweb/bin
first I check help file and  here's the first confusing command flag

* --external_cwb_data
  Optional. If the flag is present, installation is based on existing CWB
data. If not, it is based on installing from VRT files.

does "on existing CWB data"  mean a corpus previously indexed by command
line?
if so, why if I add it, I get this?
ERROR: no input files specified. Please specify --file=FILENAME (at least
once).

and if I do not add it I get this?
A corpus by that name already exists in the CQPweb registry!
even though I've checked there is no trace of previous installation in
CQPWeb

My current commands are these two:

cd /cqpweb/bin
php install-corpus.php --corpus_name mycorpus --corpus_description "My
Corpus Description" --cssBuiltIn --corpus_useDefaultRegistry
or
php install-corpus.php --external_cwb_data --corpus_name mycorpus
--corpus_description "My Corpus Description" --cssBuiltIn
--corpus_useDefaultRegistry

I have also tried with --file= but this should not be if I have my corpus
already indexed, right?:

php install-corpus.php --external_cwb_data --file="/home/user/corpus.txt"
--corpus_name="mycorpus" --corpus_description="My Corpus Description"
--cssBuiltIn --corpus_useDefaultRegistry
but then it asks me for
ERROR: an essential setting was not spe3cified. Please add option for
--corpus_charset.

when this was already set in the command line indexation....

*** the "spe3cified" is a typo in the code *** not mine...

So, what would be the correct form to do it in the scenario I've described?

As always, thanks very much for your help and patience.


Andrés Chandía
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