The best way to use our old AddOn updater is to first create a free WoWInterface account and login to the site. Then visit the pages of the AddOns you use and click the
button directly below the download button.
Once you have all your AddOns marked as favorites, download and install the old WoWInterface UI Manager
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Please Note]: There is a bug that you will need to work around to make it behave for Linux. All you need to do is from a command-line, type: ln -s AddOns Addons
This creates the symbolic link "Addons" which points to the "AddOns" directory. Thank you to
Torhal for telling us the fix.
The download is a zipfile and may require you install a program to decompress the file with
winzip (the free trial works fine) or
winrar (again the free trial works). If you download from the internet regularly you probably already have one of these programs installed. Another good option to consider is
7-Zip, which is completely free.
Open the zip file using the above mentioned programs and run the Setup.msi (on windows) and follow the prompts to install our updater. You will then see a nice "WoWInterface UI Manager" icon on your desktop.
Mac users just need to extract the program to a folder either on their desktop or applications folder and run the wowiupdater.jar file.
Once you start the program you may be prompted to find your World of Warcraft application.
Enter your WoWInterface login information as this is how it finds the favorites you marked. If you are a person with a space in your name there is currently a bug with the patcher that requires you to login like this: Mister%20Ed (use %20 instead of a space) This of course is fixed along with all the other quirks and bugs in the new updater we are working on.
Choose to install All Favorites. Or you can select some of the favorites from the left and selectively install them.
Now you should see the updater look something like below. Just confirm each AddOn and you'll be all set.
Current users feel free to post any advice you may have as well.
Keep in mind that this is our old AddOn Updater. Our new updater, that is currently in the alpha phase of testing and development, will auto detect and find all the AddOns you have already installed. It will also allow you to search our entire database of AddOns and install them right from the updater. Another feature it has it will allow other sites to write plugins so the updater works with their site. I just wanted to post about our older updater so people could use it if they wanted until our new AddOn updater is finished.
Please keep all discussion about Wowmatrix in
this thread.