Blender 4.2 cannot install addons anymore

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Hi,

  • there is no more “install plugin” button

  • I tried creating a repository pointing to a folder full of addons, they don’t show up

  • I tried creating a local folder repository, the repository does not point to the dir I selected, if I go to advanced and try to reselect the proper directory, blender crashes

  • I found I had to create the local repo, quit blender, as I launch blender, my local repo is there

but none of the plugin I have in that directory are showing up

please help me out, this is quiet frustrating to say the least

thanks

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It’s at the top right besides repositories. Click the arrow :wink:

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then what is the point of these repositories bs ?

then I try to select a dir for the addon itself, again, blender crashes

I find it hard to believe this is an LTS version, geee

4

Well they changed addons and themes to extensions… so this changes some things… and it’s in the first (or second; depends how you count) sentence of :

Dive in.

New EEVEE, better Cycles, online extensions, faster everything.

5

You can also simply drag the addon’s zip folder onto the blender workspace (without using preferences), you will get a dialog to confirm installing the addon.

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