Mac X/ 2.0.8 patch question

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

How many people out there on Mac OS X successfully installed the 2.0.8 patch the first attempt? I'm clearly missing something... The problem arises with one file that has the same name and extension (dominions2.app) so it ends up trying to replace the main file (not allowed, fortunately). What am I doing wrong? Additionally I see a Unix executable that displays the ever- un-helpful "Nagot Gick Fel" when launched. Perhaps I'm trying to go from 2.0.2 straight to 2.0.8 without going through the now-unavailable-on-the-Mac-side-but-still-necessary 2.0.6? Any other possibilities???

[Psitticine]

If I'm not mistaken, you need to allow that main app file to be overwritten. The changed code is compiled into the new main executable.

[Johan K]

Here are the instructions.

------- How to patch Dominions for Mac OS X -------

Download patch for Mac OS X. Unzip file, control-click on it, and select "Show Package Contents". Then open up your dominions application in the same manner and replace all the individual files (not entire folders) in the dominions application with their corresponding equivalents from the patch.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
If I'm not mistaken, you need to allow that main app file to be overwritten. The changed code is compiled into the new main executable.

Made the main app file over-writable, and the same-name file gladly over-wrote it. The same-name file *was* the package... oopsie. Wound up replacing a 199 MB program with a ~4MB object. Reinstalled. The Unix executable refuses to have anything to do with the main file. The other files in the package didn't have equivalents in the 2.02 Version to be replaced, so they came over without a hitch. Next suggestion please?

[st.patrik]

erm, can you just erase the whole thing, re-install from the cd (I assume we're dealing with the full game here), and then patch the right way, i.e. as Johan said? Or is it more complicated than that? I don't know what you're talking about with the 'unix executable' - I'm running OS X 10.2.8 but am not familiar with this.

[Psitticine]

Oops . . . sorry 'bout that . . .