Re: missing addons in linux version

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From: John Gordon
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:53

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In <9prv2bltb0469iadk...@4ax.com> Tom Hall <aria1946@gmail.com.invalid> writes:

> I have a dual boot consisting of Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit and ubuntu
> 15.04. 

> I spent some time researching how to get the game working in linux.
> Upgrading wine got the game to load, but in the linux version there are no
> addons, and not even an addon entry in the top-level menu.

> During my research, I read that you can actually copy your Windows game
> folders into their proper place in the wine/drive_c folder, which I did,
> and my addons are there. Why doesn't the game see them?

Did you quit and restart the game after copying the folder?

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