Reverse "Help, my mods aren't showing up!"

[hb.operandi]

Wow. Okay first off thank you for this community. Not only did I learn a lot about the game, but it really helped me get into Linux. I only recently installed it and have been struggling my way through to where I am today.

That being said...holy crap is this game difficult to get up and running. Vanilla- not so much, but what I wanted-totally.

So I have to start with the thing that gave me the most trouble....actually getting the mods to show up. I looked EVERYWHERE but never found the answer to solve it. None of them are showing up! Help!
Every answer I found basically boiled down to Put them in your 'mods' folder in ~/.minetest which was no use because that's exactly what I was doing.

Eventually I realized there was a difference between ~/.minetest and ~/minetest. Obvious I see now, but as a new user; not so much. So I began searching for it, but my Dolphin was saying invalid protocol and was frustrating the hell out of me. SO i decided to rename the folder (which was automatically installed in /home) to .minetest...only to be told there already was another one.

I began to obsessively search, even opening up my root and using

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gksu nautilus

(New users, this allows you to alter your root files (DO NOT ATTEMPT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!) and STILL nothing.

Eventually I was struck with an idea...

show hidden files

and sure enough, there it was, just chillen.

*simultaneous head-desk and facepalm.

It was as simple as is it plugged in? is it turned on?
I needed to put a post here because it took me almost 2 days to figure this out...going through all the complicated routes; installing, uninstalling, finding a different source, reinstalling...etc.

It was good because I learned a lot about

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wget

and

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apt-get

and even

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alien

and

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gksu nautilus

...but it was much simplier than I even imagined.

So now I got it working...all I need to do now is understand how to do things in Mesacons, Technic, and Pipeworks.

I'm a sucker for automation.

Hope this helps someone, and thanks again to this community!

[Nathan.S]

As a long time Linux user I would have never thought of suggesting this to anybody that couldn't find their mod folder. I'll have to keep it in mind.

Thanks for sharing.

[rubenwardy]

We kind unfairly assume that if you use Linux you'd know that if a folder or file starts with a dot, it's hidden. Bad assumption, I guess.

[hb.operandi]

haha, no worries. It's actually confusing on my part...if I didn't have a Minetest folder visible on my computer I would've gotten to the hidden files a lot sooner. I do want to thank y'all for your help though...this was my first post, but i've been prowling through the forum for a while now. Y'all have helped me in other ways considerably!