dubiousintent Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Hi everyone, I guess I wrote a new post which I should have posted here. I'm new to modding. I just downloaded the latest xcom long war mod and tried to install it by running the script for mac. But it stopped halfway with "Can not find game files. Please specify xew dir location."...PS: I purchased via Mac App Store. Not Steam. You need to read the "OS/X Mod Installation" section of the "Basic Guide to installing mods" wiki article. It has some specifics about the edits you need to make to the LW install script to fix this for the App Store version. -Dubious- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalmilitia296 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Im trying to install the mod on my external where the game is located but It keeps saying it cannot find my game files. I downloaded the game from steam. Could someone better clarify how to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubiousintent Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 The basic instructions in the "OS/X Mod Installation" section of the "Basic Guide to installing mods" wiki article still hold, but you have to substitute the partition where your game is installed for the "~" in the "INSTALLDIR" portion. The "~" is a recognized shorthand for your "home directory", but in your case that is not the partition where the game is located. If you don't follow that, then you need to educate yourself on how Unix/Linux mounts drives as "partitions". Once you have identified the partition that is your "external drive", you should be able to find the rest of the game installation path and substitute that into the script. If you still need help, give us some specifics such as the path where your game actually resides. -Dubious- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hinmaton Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 For the rest of us, is there a definitive guide to installation of Long War on OS X? I bought XCOM from the app store. It is in the Applications folder on my hard drive. Nothing I do will convince Long War to install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hinmaton Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 I've tried everything I can think of. I see output that I don't even know what it means. This is the output from Terminal on my last attempt: -------------------------- Last login: Fri Dec 25 00:17:25 on ttys000Lyles-MacBook-Pro:LW-EW-Linux-OSX-b15f Lyle$ sudo ./install-lw-osx.sh We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local SystemAdministrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type. #3) With great power comes great responsibility. Password:Installing Long War for XCOM:EW, please, be patient...User files dir: /Users/Lyle/Library/Containers/com.feralinteractive.xcomenemyunknown/Data/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition/XEWold backup already exists in /Users/Lyle/Library/Containers/com.feralinteractive.xcomenemyunknown/Data/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition/XEW/backup or /Users/Lyle/Library/Containers/com.feralinteractive.xcomenemyunknown/Data/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition/backup.Owerwrite old backup? (y/n) yRemoving old backup and all its content...Wrote backup to:User files: /Users/Lyle/Library/Containers/com.feralinteractive.xcomenemyunknown/Data/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition/XEW/backupGame files: /Users/Lyle/Library/Containers/com.feralinteractive.xcomenemyunknown/Data/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition/backupCopying install files...cp: /Users/Lyle/Library/Containers/com.feralinteractive.xcomenemyunknown/Data/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition/XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition.app/Contents/Resources/MacOverrides/XEW/xcomgame.int: No such file or directoryLyles-MacBook-Pro:LW-EW-Linux-OSX-b15f Lyle$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hinmaton Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 BTT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubiousintent Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 (edited) There is no other "definitive guide" to installing LW on a Mac than what is in the "Basic Guide", because none of the LW development team has one. (Neither do I.) The install script was your best shot at that. The best you are going to get otherwise is Linux based help, which fortunately for you is primarily what OS/X consists of. (We don't seem to have any actually Mac gurus who stick around to help people in your situation.) It doesn't help matters that the various versions of XCOM from different Mac retailers apparently have subtle differences in the paths under which they store the game files. If the above output looks like gibberish to you, then you lack the knowledge of Linux folder structure to interpret it. If you do not understand that, then you won't be able to make the edits to the "install-lw-osx.sh" script to change it to the correct path. So, first of all you need to educate yourself sufficiently to follow the paths listed in that output. This can be found on the Internet with the search phrase "linux pathing". That is simply a hard truth. The line after "Copying install files..." begins with "cp:" which is the output of the "copy" command. That path is what the script is looking for to copy FROM (i.e. should be the LW version of the file), but it can't find it. Specifically it is looking for the "./XEW/xcomgame.int" file. You have to figure out where that file actually exists on your machine in a similar path, and then modify the install script to use your path instead. Simple in concept, really, but you will have to do a little digging. -Dubious- Edited December 28, 2015 by dubiousintent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hinmaton Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 (edited) Thanks, but no thanks. It's their product. If they can't or won't get it to run, I'm not going back to school just to use their product. If I wanted to learn Linux, I wouldn't own a Mac. It looks to me like they have a great product, one I'd really like to try, but they didn't finish the job, and can't be bothered to do so now. Have a nice day, and Happy New Year. Edited December 28, 2015 by Hinmaton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hinmaton Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Has anyone with a Mac managed to install Long War? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hinmaton Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Okay, I've done some reading. If I understand you, Dubious, and I understand what I just read, (and I may, I may not. Never discount the possibility that I've made a mistake. My reputation as a genius is overrated.) there is a command somewhere in the script that tells Terminal to copy files from the Long War file to a folder in the game package, and Terminal can't find that file because it can't find that folder. Let's start there, please. Have I got that right? If I do, I'll start hunting through the mod files for the right folder. That all said, is it possible to figure out where all the mod files go, and just grab them by hand and drag them over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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