Author Topic: Error installing Addon Manager  (Read 2880 times)

PanAm377

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Error installing Addon Manager
« on: June 01, 2017, 12:24:04 am »
Hi, I've run into trouble installing the updated addon manager. I had first attempted to install the updated LAS scenery, but also had the same error message as attached. I have since uninstalled all the affected products under addon manager, but this error still persists.

What are your recommended steps?

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Re: Error installing Addon Manager
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2017, 01:02:56 am »

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Re: Error installing Addon Manager
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2017, 01:13:08 am »
It seems I understand the issue now. Since it seemed odd that two users had the same typo (I assumed it was a typo), I researched a bit, and it seem the illegal command has been introduced by the dreaded Migration Tool:

Other users posted on the internet part of their FSX.CFG that looked like that:

SimObjectPathsRemarks=These entries were automatically added from SimObjects.cfg by Migration Tool. Set

Now, this is entirely, and utterly wrong!

If they intended to comment a line, the proper way would have been to prefix it with a comment. Our installer, of course, properly recognize the two most common forms of comments on an .INI file ( the FSX.CFG it's just a standard .INI file with a .CFG extension ), which are the semicolon ; and the double slashes //

Putting a comment AS IF it was a keyword using the same official keyword as the sim *INSIDE* their newly made up keyword "SimObjectPathsRemarks" , it's just wrong, because it will easily confuse any parsing routine searching for proper keyword.

Of course, we'll adapt the installer, to defend ourselves better again this kind of corruption of the default CFG files, in this case clearly made intentionally by another product.

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Re: Error installing Addon Manager
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2017, 03:14:23 am »
Removing that Migration Tool entry in the cfg worked. Thanks for the help!