I Have Blender 2.74 running on Linux Mint 17. I downloaded the Archimesh addon, extracted it, then placed it Blender add ons folder which is this: “/usr/share/blender/2…74/scripts/addons”
Once placed in that location I open up blender user preferences addons, then install from file. But Blender wont let me select that file/addon. Normally within Blender if you click on a folder/addon it would open up to reveal the files inside. But in my case when I do that, I get no response. Instead in the corner of the screen I get this message.
“Source file is in the addon search path:/usr/share/blender/2.74/scripts/addons.”
It gives me the same error message. When I go to activate the addon Archimesh, it wont let me select it, to add it to the User/prefs/addons. But it works just fine if I selected another file. :spin:
You don’t need to “Install From File”. Assuming you’ve downloaded the .zip from github, extracted it and put the “archimesh” directory into the …/scripts/addons directory, as Meta-Androcto said, you now just need to activate the add-on.
“Install From File” is needed when you download a .py or a .zip and don’t copy it to Blender’s addons directory. That feature does the extracting/copying for you (into your user directory, i.e. ~/.config/blender/2.74/scripts/addons).
as well so I do not know why. Maybe that is ok ?
It seams it does not matter. Do we have a csv addon that works with a newer version of blender ? Or is another method being used to import points into blender 2.8+ ?
If anyone else is having this issue I found that if you’ve mistakenly moved the add-on’s zip file to the addons directory (under Blender Foundation) then Blender will see the whole zip file there and claim that you’re attempting to make a redundant installation even though the zip file is uninstalled.
When installing the zip folder has to be somewhere outside of the Blender directories.
