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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Dio on August 04, 2006, 05:14:17 pm

Title: MAC OS X WAY TO GET NEW MAPS!
Post by: Dio on August 04, 2006, 05:14:17 pm

Okay MAC OS X has a weird problem with it where when you try and but a new map into the Tremulous Base folder it say Tremulous can not be modified. So for hours I tryed to unzip it and I have got it. :) :)  :)  :)

STEPS:

1.Click on the Tremulous-20060704. It will open to a folder called Tremulous-20060704. If its the right one it will say it has 7 items.

2. Highlight the folder a go to FILE:Create Archive. A loading bar should come up and say "Archiving Tremulous-20060704

3.When completed click on the Tremulous-20060704.zip file. A new loading bar will come up saying UNARCHIVING Tremulous-20060704.zip.

4.When that is done a new folder will be made. Now download new maps and drag them into your NEW Tremulous folder. Dont through out anything just put it in your new folder that can now be MODIFIED

Also,map-derelictb-beta03 and map-gloom2beta2 are downloaded in folders you are going to have to drag the .pk3 file into the Base folder
other wise it wont read it.

All MAC OS X have archiving so dont worry about having to download anything or buy something.
 :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)

Title: MAC OS X WAY TO GET NEW MAPS!
Post by: Aninhumer on August 04, 2006, 09:12:10 pm

I don't know much about macs, but from my knowledge of unix, couldn't you just get super user access and put the files in place?

Title: MAC OS X WAY TO GET NEW MAPS!
Post by: Dio on August 05, 2006, 01:25:02 am

YA, but you would have to download it and stuff and i have never used it before. I just wanted a way that fast and easy with now downloads. :)

Title: MAC OS X WAY TO GET NEW MAPS!
Post by: REDbULL on August 05, 2006, 02:05:19 am

Just Open up the terminal [Applications/Utilities/Terminal] and do 'sudo cp path/to/mapfile path/to/put/mapfile' then enter your password

It will copy it there with no problems.

Title: MAC OS X WAY TO GET NEW MAPS!
Post by: tjw on August 05, 2006, 02:50:13 am

My guess is you never copied the "Tremulous 20060704" Folder from the .dmg to somewhere writable.  You can't write to a filesystem that's a mounted .dmg file.

Copy "Tremulous 20060704" into your /Applications/ folder and you should be fine.

I guess I should have added something about that to the ReadMe file about this.

Title: MAC OS X WAY TO GET NEW MAPS!
Post by: cochonou on August 05, 2006, 12:00:31 pm

The best way would probably to customize the disk image window, as what was done for Camino (http://www.tinypineapple.com/archives/2005/09/images/caminos_installation_instructions.gif) or Adium (http://www.thaimacclub.net/article/ichat_04.jpg).

Title: MAC OS X WAY TO GET NEW MAPS!
Post by: James on August 05, 2006, 01:24:19 pm

I'd just add that advising people who use a zip / unzip cycle to copy files and make them writeable, to open up Terminal and start sudo-ing is ... brave. Running things from the .dmg is somthing I've seen a few people do, as the above poster suggested, a background image (I think it's a specially named file, or .plst property) is one solution. Another one is a dummy file labelled 'copy this to your Applications folder' - the BBEdit .dmg actually includes a shortcut to Applications, to make this even more idiot-proof.

TJW - does the Mac build look in PREFIX/Library/App Support/Tremulous for additional .pks, or only inside the bundle?