Which version of OSX is he running?

I'm guessing it's 10.3 or older in which case it may become more complicated installing multiple versions at the same time but it may be possible I've just never tried it.

10.4 on should have no problem with installing or running multiple versions.

Sorry about the delay again. Real life getting in the way.

David, I'm having a blast figuring out the ins and outs of 1.8.1 (although I couldn't get it working from the updater, I just used the copy posted upthread). If my tinkering produces anything useful, I'll let people know.




Paul, thank you so much for the help. Here's what our resident Mac user is running:
OSX 10.6.6
Python 2.7
wxPython 2.8
OpenRPG 1.7.6

The problem he seems to have at the moment is that we can't seem to get wxPython to run in 32 bit mode (it defaults to 64 bit, and I don't know enough about OSX to figure out how to change that), but that's just the most recent in a long list of problems. I'll see if I can poke him into registering.

* Python 2.7

We have known problems with that version of Python. Maybe a downgrade to Python 2.6

This page has instructions on how to run wxpython in 32 bit.
http://blog.sumin.us/archives/1291

I don't have a 64 bit machine right now to test it on so I can't say if this works 100% but looking around most of the answers I find on this are the same so I think it's his best bet.

And as prof.ebral says switching to python 2.6 should also be done.

Hello, Mac user in question reporting in. Thanks for your help, guys.

Last time we tried to crack this was Jan. 3rd. We tested fog on my OS X partition (10.6 if you're wondering, right now it's 10.6.6 to be perfectly specific), using ORPG 1.7.6 which had failed whenever fog came up before. We tried it, and Python quit.


We found out about the workaround Paul just mentioned here. So I reinstalled Python with a new version, and before reinstalling wxPython, I navigated in Terminal to where I installed Python 2.7.1,

and I typed in this as Tempest told me:

Which I note is very similar to what you suggest in that link, Paul, but slightly different. We got it wrong I guess.

Anyways, I entered that exact command and got no response (including no error message), so next step was to install wxPython. I had not uninstalled anything prior to that point. I downloaded ORPG 1.8.0, IIRC, and gave it a whirl.

That message was:

This, to put it lightly, threw us off.

So I did a full uninstall of everything MacPython and wxPython in my machine, including sudo rm deletions of the same, in usr/lib, usr/local/lib, usr/bin, and usr/local/bin. Then I logged out of terminal. Installed Python 2.7.1, used the "defaults" command as I had before, installed wxPython (newest version, don't recall which), and then ORPG 1.8.0 again. Entered "python2.7 start_client.py" in Terminal and crossed my fingers.

This was getting irritating.

Same error message, so Tempest figured it was a 64-32 bit problem.

So we did all that, right down to the sudo rms, but *without typing in the "default" line to reset everything to 32-bit* (as we reasoned it unnecessary) and I gave it a shot.

And the installation failed.

Which is where we are now.

I'm hoping that the key mistake we made was in that one line in Terminal about setting Python to 32-bit, and that the latest attempt didn't install because I couldn't install the old version meant for OSX 10.3 on my 10.6 machine. I'm hoping that's the case and that I haven't irrevocably screwed something up. >_< I have not done ANYTHING remotely Python related, in Terminal or otherwise, since then.

Thanks for your feedback and help!

Wow it shouldn't be this hard.

I think the problem might be in the versions you are running.

I suggest python 2.6 available here http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and wxpython 2.8.10.1 available here http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxpytho ... /2.8.10.1/

I believe you want the file titled "wxPython2.8-osx-unicode-2.8.10.1-universal-py2.6.dmg"

I've borked my computer somewhere along the line, haven't I?

hmm unless 2.6 is non compatible with your OS but I figured it should be ok since it's just an older version.

However if it were I would think we would have heard from other users with the same problem.

We may have exceeded my skill level here.

Or your system could be bjorked.

I'm sorry in either case.

I'll dig some more and see if I can find anything more when I get home from work.

Thanks. Since I think we were able to get 2.5 working on my comp no problem, I don't know why 2.6 wouldn't be happy.

EDIT: Redownloaded Python 2.5.5 just to see if it would work, and that doesn't seem to have any problem. I've got a Windows partition on this hard drive, would that be an issue?

EDIT EDIT: Actually, wait, python 2.5.5 isn't working. I unzipped a backed up old version of ORPG and it won't even start. I get "python2.5 start.py-bash: python2.5: command not found" I can't find a Python folder outside of my Applications folder either, when I remember there being one in the Library. I suspect something got sudo rm'ed that shouldn't have been.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: That's because I got a source update. D'oh! Tried installing 2.5, a version I'd used a dozen times before....and the same error message appears. Something's definitely borked; I played ORPG games with Python 2.5 for years.