Just doing an upgrade from 4.0 to 5.0 and ran into this error.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<b>API Error</b><br><b>Error:</b> no_permission<br>
doing the install on a centos 5 server, with upgraded versions of php and mysql. browsed the common issues. etc but have seen no reference of this.
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