Bug#760983: minetest: Mods don't apply. What is the proper way?

[Peter Tuharsky]

Package: minetest
Version: 0.4.6+repack-6
Severity: normal

Hi,

I'm trying to use mods with Mitetest. However, there is no change in gameplay,
and the mods are not visible in the configuration menu. Seems like they are
completely ignored.

Example: Naturepack mod from
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=729
I unpack the archive into ~/.minetest/mods/
The archive contains a neko259-nature..... directory that I rename to
naturepack so that I have now
~/.minetest/mods/naturepack/
with mod files inside. The mod is said to be tested on minetest version 0.4.4
so should run on 0.4.6 I hope.

There might be a bug in mods support. Or am I doing something wrong? I don't
even know whether the minetest in Debian is compiled with mods support, and in
that case, where and how the mods should be placed in order to get active.
Google offers no useful idea for me.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sk_SK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sk_SK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to sk_SK.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages minetest depends on:
ii  libc6            2.13-38+deb7u4
ii  libcurl3-gnutls  7.26.0-1+wheezy9
ii  libfreetype6     2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgcc1          1:4.7.2-5
ii  libirrlicht1.8   1.8+dfsg1-2
ii  libjsoncpp0      0.6.0~rc2-3
ii  libjthread1.3.1  1.3.1-3
ii  liblua5.1-0      5.1.5-4+deb7u1
ii  libogg0          1.3.0-4
ii  libopenal1       1:1.14-4
ii  libsqlite3-0     3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libstdc++6       4.7.2-5
ii  libvorbis0a      1.3.2-1.3
ii  libvorbisfile3   1.3.2-1.3
ii  minetest-data    0.4.6+repack-6
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

minetest recommends no packages.

Versions of packages minetest suggests:
pn  minetest-server  <none>

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