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Cannot download Neolite ships OXP
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 7:49 pm
by masona2
I have put the OXP into my Addons folder, but it is name is
neolite.oxp.tar
And when I run the game nothing happens.
What have I done wrong?
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 7:52 pm
by Thargoid
You haven't decompressed it (tar is a compressed file - a tape archive to be historically exact).
You'll need a suitable application to decompress it. That should yield the .oxp folder (plus maybe some other stuff like documentation) that is what you need to put in the AddOns folder.
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 7:52 pm
by Commander McLane
"tar" is an archive format (like zip).
So you have to unpack it first, before you get the actual OXP, which you then have to put into your AddOns-folder.
EDIT: Thargoid got there first.
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 8:19 pm
by Cmdr James
Im going to stick my neck out and say tar is not compressed, it is rather concatenated. Thats why unix tends to have <whatever>.tar.gz where tar creates a single file, and gzip compresses it.
nitpick over :p
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 8:22 pm
by Thargoid
You are indeed most correct - I'm too used to seeing .tgz and extrapolating. Would be rather hard to compress a file on a tape
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 8:29 pm
by masona2
I've tried opening the app, but I get the message
Windows cannot open this file.
Running on XP.
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 8:34 pm
by Thargoid
You need to install a suitable program to deal with it.
Personally I'd recommend 7-zip. It's free and can cope with TAR (amongst others).
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 8:34 pm
by Commander McLane
You need some software to unpack the package. Have a look over at google, or search here on the boards, where other people have been given recommendations before.
EDIT: ninja'd again!
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 9:31 pm
by masona2
OK
I've downloaded 7-zip and I still cannot open the file.
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 10:24 pm
by Svengali
You'll have to do it twice (one time for the .gz and another time for the .tar). Right click should give you the extraction options from 7-zip. If right click does not work - open 7-zip and browse to that file and extract it.
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 11:54 pm
by masona2
Err,
How do I open 7-zip? (Sorry).
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 12:03 am
by JazHaz
masona2 wrote:Err,
How do I open 7-zip? (Sorry).
Once you've installed the program (assuming you understand how to download it and installed it), you should be able to Right-Click on a RAR, TAR or GZ file and get a popup menu. In that menu you should find a submenu for 7-Zip, inside of which you can Open Archive, Extract Files, etc etc.
Hope that makes it a bit clearer?
EDIT: If not here is a screendump illustrating the above:
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 7:01 pm
by masona2
OK
JazHaz, followed your very helpful instructions as above, extracted the file using 7zip, but the extracted file still ends in 'tar'.
So I right clicked on the original file again and the 7zip app gives the option to Extract to "neolite.oxp.tar\".
Any ideas?
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 7:16 pm
by Cmdr James
Yes, do that, then rename it to neolite.oxp (cut of the .tar)
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 8:34 pm
by masona2
Hooray!
Went to my C drive, Oolite Addons, clicked rename, deleted '.tar' and the second I hit enter my computer extracted all the ships from the file!
Loaded the game and bingo! Shiny new looking Cobra mark III on the load new commander screen. Looks great.
Thank you everyone for helping this lowly computer ignoramus get even more enjoyment from the game.