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Article #351787Re: missing addons in linux version
From: Lewis
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 05:42
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 05:42
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In message <2t403b5d7392doolp...@4ax.com> Tom Hall <aria1946@gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:53:41 +0000 (UTC), John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> > wrote: >>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? > Yes - multiple times. The game was not running when I copied the files. The only things I can think of are pretty obvious. Permissions, proper folder tree, ACLs, and line endings. (or does wine cover differing line endings in text files between windows and Linux?) -- Qui me amat, amat et canem meam
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