Authors CurseForge

WUU is a program to keep your WoW addons up-to-date, regardless(well, almost, see the FAQ further down) of which site you get them from - WoWAce, WoWInterface, CurseGaming, AuctioneerAddon, GathererAddon, CosmosUI, CTMod, CapnBry, GoogleCode (plus SVN) and DeadlyBossMods are explicitly supported, while the OtherSites module can be used to update addons from, well, other sites. There is also some general Git support.

Some of the features are:

• One-button update of your addons (except Curse, due to recent changes)
• Works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
• Simple interface for installing from CosmosUI
• Changelog report after updating
• Can use the Coral CDN to save the sites' bandwith, and make patch day upgrading faster
• Automatic self-updater (with cryptographically signed download)

Download the newest (stable) version here:
WUU 1.9.640 win32
WUU 1.9.640 osx
WUU 1.9.640 osx light version
WUU 1.9.640 source/linux
WUU 1.6.446 osx/Tiger (it will self-update to the latest version, but includes Tiger versions of libraries)

To get the Windows version of 1.8.605 (and above) to run, you might need this package from Microsoft: Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package - especially if you get an error message about "Windows Side-by-Side" or "application configuration".

MD5 sums:

651f0e3e73cd1c57dabeca99f24e6f79 *WUU-1.9.640.zip
8d49c99b1d88806a0c9d45d63daf4fe0 *WUU-1.9.640.dmg
4879a99c30d310fb71517a8d24124c6d *WUU-1.9.640-light.dmg
207d2967eb306ce143af31a96a8cf934 *WUU-1.9.640-src.zip

052fb14d25762672977a51de14301936 *WUU-1.6.446.dmg

(Beta versions are usually posted in the thread, and/or WUU can tell you about them if you enable "Allow WUU beta version" in Preferences)

Version history

Getting started
Due to addons being available from multiple sites, WUU can be a bit tricky to get started with.
There are some instructions here, which should at least get you most of the way :) Backup your addons before you try WUU, just in case ;)

Relevant links:
WUU home page
WUU wiki
SourceForge project
WUU FAQ

First WoWAce thread
WoWAce thread for WUU 1.6-1.8

SA thread for WUU 1.6-1.8

Quote from Kring

I downloaded the file http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/smart-debuff.aspx with wget through the proxy and directly and both are identical. Completely identical. I expected that.

Could you add an option to turn that feature off? Or just download more if the page is does not show the correct information?

Another idea. Maybe my Squid does not allow gz compression of the web page and therefore the content shifts outside the 100k window?

Yeah, will look into disabling that feature - maybe auto-disable if gzip is impossible or something.

Quick change to serverside: Identify from DB now returns non-Curse sites if possible.

What does "Update local version" on the context menu do? It seems to overwrite the installed version number with the latest online version number without actually updating the addon. If that's all it's supposed to do, may I suggest moving it to a different part of the context menu where it's not so easy to hit it by mistake?

Also, trying to update Talented from Curse using "Update from local file" just hangs WUU. It says something like "1 addon queued for updating" and nothing else happens. Other Curse mods update from local file just fine. Nothing in the log file that I could see.

Quote from doxxx

Also, trying to update Talented from Curse using "Update from local file" just hangs WUU. It says something like "1 addon queued for updating" and nothing else happens. Other Curse mods update from local file just fine. Nothing in the log file that I could see.

Mine did this as well when updating RatingsBuster. After some quick looking around I noticed that I had downloaded it twice; there was a *.zip and a * (2).zip. Deleting the duplicate and redoing update from file worked.

Update from file not work in Linux for me. Same as doxxx, "1 Addons queued for update, please wait..." and nothing more.

I have try the Windows version in WINE and its works ....

The file does not have *(2).zip, it is ClassTimer-2.2.1.zip. I try to rename it to ClassTimer-2.21.zip and ClassTimer.zip, no result. Here is de WUU.trace:

2009-05-03 10:16:16,425 DEBUG   WUU        :1453  WurmUI - saveUISettings
2009-05-03 10:16:19,517 DEBUG   WurmCommon :434   checkDeps: Ace3
2009-05-03 10:16:19,517 DEBUG   WurmCommon :434   checkDeps: Expo
2009-05-03 10:16:19,518 DEBUG   WurmCommon :434   checkDeps: LibSharedMedia-3.0
2009-05-03 10:16:19,521 DEBUG   WurmCommon :753   findAllChildren
2009-05-03 10:16:19,523 DEBUG   Wurm       :1104  CurseGamingAddon - getAddonURL
2009-05-03 10:16:19,523 DEBUG   Wurm       :1104  CurseGamingAddon - getAddonURL
2009-05-03 10:16:19,523 DEBUG   Wurm       :195   Addon - _getChangelogFilename
2009-05-03 10:16:19,879 DEBUG   WUU        :695   WurmUI - _getLcItems
2009-05-03 10:16:24,864 DEBUG   WUU        :3638  WurmUI - OnUpdateFromFile
2009-05-03 10:16:24,874 DEBUG   WUU        :695   WurmUI - _getLcItems
2009-05-03 10:16:24,875 DEBUG   WUU        :1591  WurmUI - updateProgress2
2009-05-03 10:16:24,875 DEBUG   WurmCommon :1337  FindRecentDownloads: ClassTimer

I am having trouble configuring WUU to update an addon using the OtherSite option. I am afraid the RegExp stuff has me completely confused. I would be very grateful if someone could provide me with the correct settings.

The addon I am trying to get WUU to monitor is Enhanced Flight Map by Lysidia. The Site ID is http://lysaddons.game-host.org. The Addon Info Page is efm/index.html.

Quote from Jncl

Hi shdwphnx,

I tried to do this and failed but this addon is also hosted on GoogleCode, so if you set it up to use GoogleCode as the Source Site and lysaddons as the Siteid it will work.

Thank you very much. I had no idea that Lysidia put her addons on GoogleCode as well as her own site (she quit updating WoWInterface/Curse/etc. a while back).

WUU 1.9.649 win32
WUU 1.9.649 osx
WUU 1.9.649 osx light version
WUU 1.9.649 source/linux

MD5 sums:

8009b76a48cb564fae687286e8f04022 *WUU-1.9.649.zip
9611cb1d3305b71d95a30bda13624d84 *WUU-1.9.649.dmg
d80cb30d63ea26e76fde9e44a9fb11b5 *WUU-1.9.649-light.dmg
29958981e1f74d58c7d9beebaf8de1bf *WUU-1.9.649-src.zip

1.9.649 (2009.05.08 ):

• Feature fix: Improved identification of downloaded files - uses "Friendly name"
• Feature fix: Updated git handling
• Feature: Manual installation from WoWUI and WowAce

"Friendly name" is for addons where the zip file downloaded uses a different name than the directory of the addon.

Case in point:
Wardrobe-AL is a continued development of Wardrobe, so it installs to the folder "Wardrobe", but the zip file name is on the format "wardrobe-al-X-YY.zip", which is different enough that the "guessing" code missed it. Setting the friendly name of the addon to wardrobe-al makes the guessing code find it now.

How can I install a new addon from this updater? I've looked the various menu and the only option that I've see for this job is "Addon->Install from->website" (maybe).
How can I add other websites to add more addons in the list? Cosmos isn't enough.

Hey lejordet, I don't know if you noticed, but the Qt GUI toolkit is now LGPL: http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/lgpl-license-option-added-to-qt

I have this strange obsession with always having the latest version, which means that many of the addons I use are alpha versions from WoWAce. I have found that WUU correctly detects when there is a new alpha version available, but that the "Open Download Page" option always goes to either a beta or release download which is often much older. Is there a way I can override this behaviour?


Also, when I download files manually I use a program called Free Download Manager which creates a text file listing the url it came from. That text file has a similar name to the download itself (IE: when I download "PitBull4-r20090510210454.zip", I also get "PitBull4-r20090510210454.zip.dsc.txt"). WUU's file name guess always grabs the text file instead of the ZIP. If I delete the TXT file before trying to have WUU install the addon, WUU simply doesn't guess at all and just prompts me to pick the file. Is there anything I can do about this?

There has been an issue recently with LibPeriodicTable, that causes the following entry in the error log page:

2009-05-16 07:44:18: (ERROR) Installation of LibPeriodicTable-3.1 failed: 'LibPeriodicTable-3.1/LibPeriodicTable-3.1-InstanceLoot/LibPeriodicTable-3.1-InstanceLoot.toc'
2009-05-16 07:44:18: (WARN) No TOC file for LibPeriodicTable-3.1

I'm not sure why WUU is delving that deeply into the archive when there's a TOC file at the root...but the file exists despite the error message.