extracting add ons

[new2]

If I want to get add ons for old versions I have to download them through the browser and extract them. Can wesnoth extract them self / can I go to the add on archive with wesnoth?

[zookeeper]

At least the page for the 1.6 add-ons has instructions on where to unpack the files.

[norbert]

get add ons for old versions [...] Can wesnoth extract them self

You can click the Add-ons button, then read and use:
http://forum.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?p=430602#p430602
(Note that not all add-ons will work properly because of syntax changes.)

[new2]

no, silly, this don't works. Every link I try gives the error: Remote Host disconnected...

[monochromatic]

Because the server might be down at the moment: 'Remote host disconnected' has nothing to do with the add-ons themselves. For now, why don't you unpack them from http://addons.wesnoth.org ?

Did you just call norbert silly? o.O

[Feufochmar]

On linux, addons for 1.8 are located under : $HOME/.wesnoth1.8/data/add-ons/
Where $HOME is your home directory.
I don't know where the user data are located on other OS.

Every link I try gives the error: Remote Host disconnected...

Maybe a firewall problem. I have the same message (but I can't even reach the addon list) because the connection is blocked by the firewall of the network I use.

[new2]

Because the server might be down at the moment: 'Remote host disconnected' has nothing to do with the add-ons themselves. For now, why don't you unpack them from http://addons.wesnoth.org ?

Did you just call norbert silly? o.O

no, the server is not down. I can reach him over the browser. I used http://addons.wesnoth.org but the error came.

[Gambit]

The add-ons from that site are gzipped. What operating system are you on? I'm sure someone can suggest some decent software for that.

On Windows I used to use 7zip.
On Linux I use Ark, but I'm not sure which program really extracts them because Ark is just a frontend for many different extraction programs.

After extracting you'll have to place them in the add-ons folder in the userdata directory. Again this will vary by OS.
Windows defaults to Documents/My Games/Wesnoth1.8/
Linux is in ~/.wesnoth/

I can't help with Mac unfortunately if you use it. I think elvish_sovereign might know though.
You could search google for a .gz extractor for Mac, and search the wiki for the userdata directory.

[monochromatic]

For Mac double-clicking does the job. Worst case use terminal and extract it from there. The userdata for 1.8+ is ~/Library/Application Support/Wesnoth_1.8/

[new2]

The add-ons from that site are gzipped. What operating system are you on? I'm sure someone can suggest some decent software for that.

On Windows I used to use 7zip.
On Linux I use Ark, but I'm not sure which program really extracts them because Ark is just a frontend for many different extraction programs.

After extracting you'll have to place them in the add-ons folder in the userdata directory. Again this will vary by OS.
Windows defaults to Documents/My Games/Wesnoth1.8/
Linux is in ~/.wesnoth/

I have a zipping Program. This is not the problem. If I download add ons, they are zipped, too. following wesnoth can unzip files hisself. how can I use this by downloading with the browser?

The Information which is at the 1.6 Archive don't works. Even not at my 1.6.4.

[Gambit]

1. Download the add-on from the website
2. Extract it with your program
3. Place the extracted folder in add-ons folder

[new2]

read the post again -.- this is the way I do it at the moment

[Iris]

On Linux I use Ark, but I'm not sure which program really extracts them because Ark is just a frontend for many different extraction programs.

gunzip, which is usually invoked through tar zxf foobar.tar.gz in the case of gzip tarballs. Gzip only supports compressing single files by itself, so normally multi-file archives are first stored in a tar package prior to compressing.

GNOME also has its own archiving front-end similarly to KDE's Ark.

[new2]

I think you don't understand. I don't want to extract myself...

http://addons.wesnoth.org/1.6/
PS: If you really have to download an add-on from here uncompress it to the userdata/data/campaigns/ directory for wesnoth to find it.

but it don't work

[pauxlo]

So, be a bit more concrete. What did you do, what did you expect what would happen, and what happened instead?

(Yes, you have to unpack the files before using them, if you download them outside of Wesnoth. The directory to put them in changed a bit from 1.6 to 1.8 - see here.)