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eric5h5: [..] I recently upgraded to Sierra [..] GOG installer is just plain broken. [..]
So yes, please go back to .dmg files.[..]
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phaolo:
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jeanfredd: I have exactly the same issue
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phaolo: Can you please report this to Gog?
Maybe contact Fables.
Do you mean contacting Gog through chat or forum ? I just posted a dedicated post on the forum, and tried to contact Fable on chat, but he was offline, I'll try again another time

Regards,

JF
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jeanfredd: I tried to contact Fable on chat, but he was offline
Well, remember that today is Sunday.
She'll probably answer on monday.
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jeanfredd: Do you mean contacting Gog through chat or forum ? I just posted a dedicated post on the forum, and tried to contact Fable on chat, but he was offline, I'll try again another time
For a more useful suggestion try sending in a support ticket through one of the innumerable support links. They will be best equipped to assist you.
I haven't used any of the last .pkg installers myself, but as I understand you need to select the destination folder as one of the steps. If you miss that it doesn't actually install.
Post edited March 06, 2017 by Gydion
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Gydion: I haven't used any of the last .pkg installers myself, but as I understand you need to select the destination folder as one of the steps. If you miss that it doesn't actually install.
I haven't had any issues with Owlboy, SteamWorld Heist or Stardew Valley, which are some of the newest Mac-ready games I bought from GOG. Then again, I'm still on El Capitan. This is seems to be a Sierra issue if I'm reading those posts correctly.
Post edited March 06, 2017 by mistermumbles
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jeanfredd: Do you mean contacting Gog through chat or forum ? I just posted a dedicated post on the forum, and tried to contact Fable on chat, but he was offline, I'll try again another time
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Gydion: For a more useful suggestion try sending in a support ticket through one of the innumerable support links. They will be best equipped to assist you.
I haven't used any of the last .pkg installers myself, but as I understand you need to select the destination folder as one of the steps. If you miss that it doesn't actually install.
Thank you, it was indeed my issue. I'll post it next time in an "issue" threads, Regards.
I'm on MacOs 10.11.6 and all the Pillars of Eternity Games are pkg-Files. After an successful install there is nothing on hard disk. So this is the problem i first encountered on the Thimbleweed Park Game on game release. Why are the pkg's not working?? ... only your pkg's!!!!
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elf.kerben: I'm on MacOs 10.11.6 and all the Pillars of Eternity Games are pkg-Files. After an successful install there is nothing on hard disk. So this is the problem i first encountered on the Thimbleweed Park Game on game release. Why are the pkg's not working?? ... only your pkg's!!!!
…Some nearly 600 days later, you manage to dredge this thread from who knows where.

So I'm going to admit, I'm more than a little rusty on my MacOS, having not used the platform since the System 8 days.

But I do know my way around a Unix system fairly well, and since OS-X is the red headed stepchild of the red headed stepchild of Unix, (BSD), I do have an idea or two.

So somewhere in that padded cell of an interface, where they took out all the good ideas (like Alt+F2), whack the everliving tar out of Command+Spacebar, and type in Terminal, and (ugh) double click the result. Thankfully, one of the sane things OS X does is use Bash. One of very few points in favor.

The command in mind is locate, used to find files. So for example, if you typed locate thimbleweed, it'd go ahead and list out all files that match thimbleweed. Thankfully it supports incomplete phrases, so you can probably get away with 'locate thimble'. (Sans quotes, of course.)

Now if it lists a lot of files, your game is probably installed somewhere and you just don't know how to find it. I'd suggest installing an actual file manager so you can trace to it, but I have no idea how to facilitate that. If there's just one or fewer files, then it probably never installed.
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elf.kerben: I'm on MacOs 10.11.6 and all the Pillars of Eternity Games are pkg-Files. After an successful install there is nothing on hard disk. So this is the problem i first encountered on the Thimbleweed Park Game on game release. Why are the pkg's not working?? ... only your pkg's!!!!
Hi.
:)
I can't say why the PKGs files aren't working and installing the games, because they are NOT being installed, but there is, as mentioned above in this thread, a (tedious but functional) workaround to this annoying problem.

This is the process:

1. Open Terminal and write:

xar -xf <package_path>
cd package.pkg
tar -xvf Scripts

The <package_path> is the location in your computer where you currently have the .pkg file of the game that is misbehaving.
I recommend placing it on the Desktop for easy access.

NOTE: You can drag the game .pkg file from where you have it to the Terminal window where you are doing this and it writes the path for you.

2. Press Enter and let Terminal do its thing ( it could take a while to even start doing anything, so be patient ).
3. Look for a newly created .pkg file inside your User account. It will be called "package.pkg"
4. Right-click the package.pkg file and select Show Package Contents.
5. Search around for a folder named "payload".
6. Copy or move that folder to any location you like in your computer ( Applications or elsewhere ).
7. Rename the folder to whatever you like with the extension .app ( E.G. Shogun.app ).
8. That's the game, so double-click that file to start.

9. OPTIONAL EXTRA STEP: So you don't have to do this everytime you install the same game, I recommend that you use some application (like Keka, for example) to make a .dmg file with the application you just extracted. That way you can just store your game as a .dmg for the next time.

I hope this helps.
:)
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elf.kerben: I'm on MacOs 10.11.6 and all the Pillars of Eternity Games are pkg-Files. After an successful install there is nothing on hard disk. So this is the problem i first encountered on the Thimbleweed Park Game on game release. Why are the pkg's not working?? ... only your pkg's!!!!
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chibizoid: Hi.
:)
I can't say why the PKGs files aren't working and installing the games, because they are NOT being installed, but there is, as mentioned above in this thread, a (tedious but functional) workaround to this annoying problem.

This is the process:

1. Open Terminal and write:

xar -xf <package_path>
cd package.pkg
tar -xvf Scripts

The <package_path> is the location in your computer where you currently have the .pkg file of the game that is misbehaving.
I recommend placing it on the Desktop for easy access.

NOTE: You can drag the game .pkg file from where you have it to the Terminal window where you are doing this and it writes the path for you.

2. Press Enter and let Terminal do its thing ( it could take a while to even start doing anything, so be patient ).
3. Look for a newly created .pkg file inside your User account. It will be called "package.pkg"
4. Right-click the package.pkg file and select Show Package Contents.
5. Search around for a folder named "payload".
6. Copy or move that folder to any location you like in your computer ( Applications or elsewhere ).
7. Rename the folder to whatever you like with the extension .app ( E.G. Shogun.app ).
8. That's the game, so double-click that file to start.

9. OPTIONAL EXTRA STEP: So you don't have to do this everytime you install the same game, I recommend that you use some application (like Keka, for example) to make a .dmg file with the application you just extracted. That way you can just store your game as a .dmg for the next time.

I hope this helps.
:)
Merci chibizoid,

i did this also with a lot of other games here from gog. Sometimes the pkg installs fine, like Pillars 2, sometimes it fails. Thanks for your tips.

To Darvon,

MacOs is/ was a choice because mostly you don't have to fiddle around with stuff. You have mosty dmg's drag and drop and the program runs. If i do xar on Pillars2 i ended with 66gb extra to the 22gb DL. So problem is space on SSDs or HDs, time ... a lot to unzip every game and after the rename the payload mostly its nowthere; not user-friendly and it cost my money ... so 600 days later its the same problem like before and nothing changed. I'm in the medical business and if we act like this ... :-)

Gog's pkg sometimes work, sometimes not. Pkgs from other resources work, best for all is dmg.
Post edited October 03, 2018 by elf.kerben
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elf.kerben: Merci chibizoid,

i did this also with a lot of other games here from gog. Sometimes the pkg installs fine, like Pillars 2, sometimes it fails. Thanks for your tips.

To Darvon,

I'm in the medical business and if we act like this ... :-)
If you all act like this in the medical industry, you all end up on r/talesfromtechsupport.