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Re: missing addons in linux version

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From: Lewis
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:47
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In message <8na43b9ce0mtiorf2...@4ax.com> 
  Tom Hall <aria1946@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 05:42:35 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>>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?)

> I have no idea about the inner workings of wine. I've only been using linux
> for about a month.

> Acting on information I found online, I copied the entire WoW folder tree
> from my Windows setup to the proper place in my linux .wine drive_c folder.
> The game works perfectly, except for the fact that I have no addons. All
> files and folders in the copied tree have rwx permissions. 

Well, then maybe it is the line endings.

Windows uses different line endings than real computers, and all addons
are text files.

Windows uses both a CR and a LF at the end of a line. If you open up one
of the files in the addons and you see a ^M at the end of the lines,
then that is possibly the problem.

You would need to convert the text files to the right line endings.


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Subject: Re: missing addons in linux version
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