Addon Folder Location

greenco · Post by **greenco** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:56 pm

I am running version 1.65.6, under Ububtu 8.04 and want to add some expansion packs. The instructions tell me to place them in the "ADDON" folder, but I can't find an addon folder, on my system. Does anyone know where the " Synaptic Package Manager " installs the program? Or is the instructions just for version 1.7.
Thanks

Post by **another_commander** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:17 pm

If I am not mistaken, it should be ~/.Oolite/AddOns. Have you tried this location?

greenco · Post by **greenco** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:30 pm

I can not find any folder named AddOns. Can you give me the path that the "Tilde" symbols represents.

Post by **another_commander** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:33 pm

The tilde represents your home directory. And it might be that you will have to create this folder yourself if it does not exist.

greenco · Post by **greenco** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:49 pm

I found the correct location, while reading a different post. It refered to the "oolite.app" and said that the AddOns folder should be placed in the same folder that contains the " oolite.app ". I just did it and it works.
Thanks for your help.

davcefai · Post by **davcefai** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:12 am

In Linux, "~" in a path refers to your home directory. So if you are Jim it is /home/Jim/

Ideally all your personal data should go there.

Also, and here's the "trick", in Linux a directory name starting with a "." is, by default, hidden by file managers.

If you use Konqueror you can show these directories by selecting "View, Hidden Files".

You will find a folder named:
/home/Jim/.Oolite/Addons/

This is where your OXPs should live.

If you have extracted the Zip files and moved the files as Root user make sure that you set the permissions to allow yourself access to them.

greenco · Post by **greenco** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:40 pm

Thanks davcefai,
I turned on the "show hidden files" and hit the jackpot!!!
I moved the OXPs to the correct folder and things are working just fine.
Thanks

davcefai · Post by **davcefai** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:20 am

Always glad to be of service

Just a quick note about the home folder: If you use it strictly then all your data is in one place and is easily backed up.

/home is a separate partition on disc and will thus survive hard disc failures where another partition gets corrupted. (Windows may well be the only OS which does not insist on partitioning your discs).

Backing up your /home and /etc folders is the way to ensure a relatively painless disaster recovery. (/etc holds settings)