How to Install old-style Plone Skins on buildout-based Plone 3

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The following are general instructions for old-style free or commercial Plone skins (not egg packages) installation on buildout-based Zope instances for Plone 3. There is INSTALL.txt file in every theme's /docs directory with the exact installation instructions for every theme.

In this article we use qPloneSkinName as an example theme name

Follow the link on the skin page on this website to get Plone skin zip archive - qPloneSkinName-version.zip
Unpack zip archive to get qPloneSkinName skin folder.
Move Plone skin folder qPloneSkinName to the products directory of your buildout-based Zope instance.
Re-run buildout with the following command in the terminal:
```
./bin/buildout
```
Restart the Zope server.

Install the skin in your Plone instance with QuickInstaller (Plone Control Panel -> Add/remove Products)

Now your Plone site should have the corresponding skin look.

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