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Eugen
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Can't install Add-ons

Post by Eugen »

Hello, I can't install add-ons. It always says "A problem occured when trying to create files necessary to install this add-on." I've experienced this issue with both non-steam and steam version of the game (congrats for the Steam version btw :) ). Thank you for any help.
Kyskei
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Re: Can't install Add-ons

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I'm having the same issue
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Re: Can't install Add-ons

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Same problem here as well.
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Re: Can't install Add-ons

Post by Zap-Zarap »

Are you on windows10?
Maybe it's related to OneDrive. Get rid of that, maybe.
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Re: Can't install Add-ons

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Thanks for the tip, I'm using Win 10 and there was some mysterious problem with my OneDrive not a long time ago (I wasn't able to upgrade it). I'll try to fix it and than disable it (now I can't even access my OneDrive :D ). Thanks again.
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Re: Can't install Add-ons

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So I unistalled OneDrive but no luck :( Still can't install add-ons.
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Eugen wrote: May 11th, 2018, 3:12 pm So I unistalled OneDrive but no luck :( Still can't install add-ons.
Is your folder with wesnoth writable? (not read only? not admin protected?)
C:\Users\Admin\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14
maybe you installed it as admin account and now using some non-admin account?
These are just my noob ideas.. i'm not really sure if this can be the problem.. hopefuly some more advanced people here give you better advice...
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Re: Can't install Add-ons

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My Win10 puts addons to:

C:\Users\Zap-Zarap\Documents\MyGames\Wesnoth1.14\data\add-ons\...

No admin account :)

My installation process:
- download from sourceforge as user "Zap-Zarap" (non-admin)
- click (as Zap-Zarap) on the installer package
- now system asks me for admin password
- Wesnoth-stuff is installed in my User\Zap-Zarap\Documents thing.
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Re: Can't install Add-ons

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You need to include the required bug report info. viewtopic.php?t=25660
Eugen
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Re: Can't install Add-ons

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Thanks, here's bug report info:

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The Battle for Wesnoth version 1.14.1 (918cdfc-Clean)
Running on Microsoft Windows 10 (10.0.17134)

Game paths
==========

Data dir:        D:\Hry\Steam\steamapps\common\wesnoth
User config dir: C:\Users\uživatel\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14
User data dir:   C:\Users\uživatel\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14
Saves dir:       C:\Users\uživatel\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14\saves
Add-ons dir:     C:\Users\uživatel\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14\data\add-ons
Cache dir:       C:\Users\uživatel\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14\cache

Libraries
=========

Boost:             1.66
OpenSSL/libcrypto: 1.1.0f (runtime 1.1.0f)
Cairo:             1.10.2 (runtime 1.10.2)
Pango:             1.30.1 (runtime 1.30.1)
SDL:               2.0.8  (runtime 2.0.8)
SDL_image:         2.0.3  (runtime 2.0.3)
SDL_mixer:         2.0.2  (runtime 2.0.2)
SDL_ttf:           2.0.14 (runtime 2.0.14)

Features
========

Experimental OpenMP support:    yes
JPG screenshots:                yes
Lua console completion:         yes
Legacy bidirectional rendering: no
Win32 notifications back-end:   yes

I've also attached the log file.
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Re: Can't install Add-ons

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I would like to know if a solution has been found in the meantime for this problem
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Re: Can't install Add-ons

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DardSolf wrote: June 22nd, 2021, 9:05 pm I would like to know if a solution has been found in the meantime for this problem
Your Anti-Virus software is blocking/preventing Wesnoth from downloading add-ons. Possible solutions: Wesnoth as an exception, switch antivirus off or uninstall the antivirus software.

(I have experienced the same problem myself and just uninstalled Avast to solve it)
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