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sincere apologies for a noob post, but I can't seem to figure out for the life of me how to install textures and edit the path on the config correctly using ubuntu 12.04. Any and all help will be very appreciated.
thanks guys.

Maybe this can help you: http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2033
(Under Bugs and errors --> Texture Packs , How to get them to work ?!!!! HELP !! D:)

Thank you, but still no wiser, I will show you the directory tree of my folder.

{folder} .minetest
debug.txt
minetest.conf
{folder}world

Now, I add a folder directly into the .minetest, textures, then a folder named all within that,
but alas still not working, all suggestions welcome.
thank you.

Also, the wiki info states:
"Extract the "data" folder from the zip or .tar file you downloaded.

Then simply overwrite all the files in the default /minetest/data/ folder with the new ones you downloaded. "

There is no data folder or subsequent folder(s) to add more to my distinct confusion ...


HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!
FOUND IT!
the directory path is not obvious at all but its as follows,
Home/ local/ share/.minecraft/data

and thats for minetest 3 on ubuntu 12.04. hope that helps anybody else out in the same boat!



nope not working same base textures, any clues guys?

Tip: you should use a self-compiled version... it is much better, packages usually suck for games. :P
And also: http://wiki.minetest.com/wiki/Installing_texture_packs

I've unfortunately only trial and error knowledge. Maybe this helps;

The first time I installed Minetest I put the mods in: /usr/share/minetest/games/minetest_game/mods. So not the home folder. Whenever I installed a mod this way, I needed to 'sudo' because of the root.

I you do what Calinou says, Minetest will be in your home. You then can place the mods in /home/THE NAME YOU GAVE INSTALLING UBUNTU/celeron55-minetest-4b2cc38/mods/minetest.

Hope one of this methods works for you. I prefer compiling minetest myself. It works while I don't have much knowledge of programming nor of Linux.

"~" is equal to "/home/username/". ;)

Topywo wrote:I've unfortunately only trial and error knowledge. Maybe this helps;

The first time I installed Minetest I put the mods in: /usr/share/minetest/games/minetest_game/mods. So not the home folder. Whenever I installed a mod this way, I needed to 'sudo' because of the root.

I you do what Calinou says, Minetest will be in your home. You then can place the mods in /home/THE NAME YOU GAVE INSTALLING UBUNTU/celeron55-minetest-4b2cc38/mods/minetest.

Hope one of this methods works for you. I prefer compiling minetest myself. It works while I don't have much knowledge of programming nor of Linux.

Thank you ever so much for the help, I got the jist of it... only how to get root permission to alter the contents of the folder, I know, I know I'm just so lame, only normally use ubuntu for painting with gimp and mypaint... just thought of venturing into games..

mindcrap wrote:Thank you ever so much for the help, I got the jist of it... only how to get root permission to alter the contents of the folder, I know, I know I'm just so lame, only normally use ubuntu for painting with gimp and mypaint... just thought of venturing into games..

You do not have to use root (and you should not anyway) - use your personal .minetest folder, as I said earlier.

Example structure:

Calinou wrote:

mindcrap wrote:Thank you ever so much for the help, I got the jist of it... only how to get root permission to alter the contents of the folder, I know, I know I'm just so lame, only normally use ubuntu for painting with gimp and mypaint... just thought of venturing into games..

You do not have to use root (and you should not anyway) - use your personal .minetest folder, as I said earlier.

Example structure:

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home/
- username/
-- .minetest/ (hidden folder, use Ctrl+H to show)
--- textures/
---- all/
----- default_stone.png
----- ...


I'm sorry! but this file structure is one I tried first, I had to create the folders textures/ all/ then the contents, and no luck, it just gives the same defaults, thus why I inquired about root and using the usr/ share/ minetest aproach.
I really hope to get this working, wanted to make some texture packs of my own to share.
Again cheers.

I never changed textures, so I had to take a look.

I assume you know how to compile (with Celeron55's readme.txt https://github.com/celeron55/minetest ), and that you've done that.

I found the following folder:

---> /home/"Topywo"/celeron55-minetest-4b2cc38/textures/all

In it is a "textures_here.txt" file.

The text inside it says: If you haven't modified the texture_path setting, you can copy textures of your texture packs into here. Folders are currently not supported. So my guess would be to place texture pack .png 's in here.

Hope this helps you out.