Auctioneer/Installing
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Installing Auctioneer
A step by step guide to installing/upgrading Auctioneer
This guide will graphically show you how to install or upgrade your Auctioneer version to the latest version on Windows.
A similar process can be applied to OSX or Linux installations, however the paths and tools you will use will be different.
Backing up
Upgrading only - See Backup your SavedVariables file
Download
Go to The Auctioneer download page to download the latest stable release of Auctioneer, and save it to your disk.
Find your AddOns
Browse to your AddOns folder which is at World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns on your hard disk.
Delete old folders
Once you have found your AddOns folder, select and delete the following folders. We will be re-extracting them from the newly downloaded zip file from step 1.
- For Auctioneer Advanced and Auctioneer Classic versions you will have some or all these folders.
- !Swatter, Auc-Advanced, Auc-Filter-Basic, Auc-ScanData, Auc-Stat-Purchased, Auc-Stat-Simple, Auc-Stat-StdDev, Auc-Filter-Outlier, Auc-Match-Undercut, Auc-Stat-WOWEcon, Auc-Util-Appraiser, Auc-Util-AskPrice, Auc-Util-CompactUI, Auc-Util-PriceLevel, Auc-Util-ScanButton, Auc-Util-ScanFinish, Auc-Util-ScanProgress, Auc-Util-VendMarkup,SlideBar, Babylonian, DebugLib, Configator, Auctioneer, BeanCounter, BtmScan, Enchantrix, Enchantrix-Barker, EnhTooltip, Informant, Stubby.
- For Auctioneer 4.05 and older version's you will have some or all these folders.
Open the zip file
Find the file you downloaded in step 1 and double-click the icon in Explorer to open the file in your favourite archive extraction application. If you don't have one, you can get a free one called 7-Zip from the 7-Zip download page which will handle most of your file extraction needs and more. The following instructions assume you are using it. If you have a different one, the procedure will be mostly similar.
Select the files
When the zip file browser opens, select all the files in the file view by using the mouse or going to the application's Edit menu and choose Select All. Note: You may not wish to extract all the files, however if you do decide to leave some files out, you must at minimum install Stubby and EnhTooltip, as they are required library functions that all the other AddOns in the Auctioneer Pack use.
Select copy
Click the copy button on the toolbar to begin the installation process. A dialog will pop up, asking you where to put the selected folders to when the contents are extracted.
Browse to destination
Press the ... button at the right side of the dialog box, and a folder browser will appear, select the World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns folder and click OK
Select OK
Now you will be returned to the Copy dialog, but with the correct path in the text input field. Select OK to complete the process and begin copying the files to your World of Warcraft's AddOns folder.
Wait for a bit
A dialog will briefly pop up to chart the extraction process's progress, and once finished will disappear. Simply close the 7-Zip application, as we are now finished with it.
All done
You have now completed the installation of your new Auctioneer AddOns. Yay!
Note: When you use AddOn Libraries that install themself and clean the AddOn folder (like Cosmos does) it is wise to install Auctioneer (and it's sister AddOns) to another folder first (e.g. the root of the drive) and then copy the files manually to the AddOns folder. Most of the time the installer of the AddOn Library will not delete AddOns that are not in the library, but in this way you have at least a backup on your drive in case it (by accident) is deleted.
If you need help configuring World of Warcraft to enable your AddOn, please see the Enabling Auctioneer in WoW section.
