Comments on: Manually Installing Addons: A Beginner’s Guide

By: UI Design and Endgame DPS « OutDPS!

UI Design and Endgame DPS « OutDPS! — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:08:34 +0000

[...] guide. It talks about what addons are, where to find them and how to install them. There is also this guide to finding and installing addons and this one for sources of [...]

By: NO DRAMA is Good Drama

NO DRAMA is Good Drama — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:45:19 +0000

[...] First you need to know how to get and install the addons. This article from NOStockUI does a much better job than I could: Manually Installing Addons: A Beginnerâ€™s Guide [...]

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Duct Tape and a Prayer » [31DBBB] Day 2: Linkgasm 4/8/09 (A List Post) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:51:38 +0000

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By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:42:10 +0000

@Gray – You are right, I too had this problem when I first started out with Vista. As you thought it has to do with permissions and such. I bypassed this by not installing the game through disks. I copied the entire World of Warcraft directory to an outside harddrive, and whenever I need to reinstall the game or load a fresh version, I just copy that over from my extra harddrive to where I want it. This bypasses all that install stuff, and my files go exactly where I want them to. You could also try lowering the security settings on the machine.

Hope that helps.

By: Brajana

Brajana — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:42:06 +0000

I always install addons manually the first time they are installed, but allow and auto-updater to take care of it afterward. This way I can get more detail from the description and comments on the addon page. Zusterke - I don't know of any sort of XML/RSS feeds that do what you are talking about, but that would be helpful! Brajanaâ€™s last blog post..Ghugh, forty!

By: Ithato

Ithato — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:37:17 +0000

@Zusterke That'd be an interesting side project for me or someone else with similar inclinations. Currently, I just skim my 2-3 site-wide RSS feeds during the day in Google Reader and star the ones I need to take action on when I get home. I checked briefly, and if you followed Wikwocket's suggestion, Curse's Favorites page did not appear to have any RSS feed, while WowInterface's page does. You could probably use something like Yahoo Pipes to do it on your own, though.

By: Zusterke

Zusterke — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:38:32 +0000

I prefer to install addons manually, at least the new ones. I’m always sceptical about ‘autotools’. Unfortunately, I find this manual approach a pain to update addons regularly. This process becomes increasingly annoying as the number of addons grow.

While I avoid overloading on addons, manual maintenance almost begs the approach of ‘wait till an error occurs and then update that addon’. You won’t hear any RL welcome that option though.
So, we are somewhat forced to fall back on regular updates. Autotools updaters become a very attractive option then. But if they serve to update, they might as well serve to install new addons as you’re running the same risk either way.

Perhaps an excellent way to support manual installation would be a sort of xml/rss feed witch a stream of updates for addons you selected. Does anyone know if such a feed is available somewhere?

By: Gray

Gray — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:44:54 +0000

Just as an interesting observation with regards to Vista and Addons. I don’t personally use Vista, but my flat mates do. In a past patch installer, the installer would shift your WoW folder to a ‘public’ location (in the case of my friends laptop C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft). This I assume is due to the new file permissions system Vista introduced.

Anyway, what that meant was that Addons needed to be extracted to this new ‘public’ folder, as opposed to the Program Files version, in order for them to be detected and work. I’m not sure if this is the case for every Vista user playing WoW, but certainly the case for my two flatmates. So if you extract your addons to the ‘Program Files’ WoW folder and you get no joy, check to see if there hasn’t been another WoW folder created somewhere else.

Anyone with more experience, or further clarification on the situation, please pipe up because as I say, I play on XP, I just remember my flatmates running into problems in the past and that being the solution.

By: Q

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:15:39 +0000

I use the other people in the party as my Pally Power mod. Far more useful to have a bunch of people in a uproar towards the person assigned to buff, say, Kings.. I’d rather that they actually take some time to be situationally aware themselves rather than rely on a mod to take account of what’s going on around them for the person.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:05:50 +0000

@Q – Interesting observation. I disagree. However, I find it far more useful to see who has buffs, who needs buffs, and how much time is left, over the ease of assigning the buffs. Whether I say them out loud or click it with a mouse, it requires the same amount of thought.

Of course, it’s just my .02 cents.