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I am looking for file download functionality in Joomla 1.5. I am creating a blog type layout for a daily newsgram. It was previously being published online in a pdf format. I want to create a link from the newsgram blog to an archive download page where they can browse by date and download the .pdf files.

I did not see any core functionality for this so I tried to install the docman component. For some reason it starts installing and then I get a blank page and find that it is not installed. Any thoughts about core functionality, good extensions, or why docman is not installing.