Installing the game on MacOS: Difference between revisions

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::: <code>/usr/local/homebrew/bin/brew install cairo</code>
::: <code>/usr/local/homebrew/bin/brew install cairo</code>
:: This will take many minutes to complete, with hundreds of lines of log messages in Terminal. It can take half an hour or more on some machines.
:: This will take many minutes to complete, with hundreds of lines of log messages in Terminal. It can take half an hour or more on some machines.
:  &nbsp;4. Now download Vintage Story and double-click it to Unarchive it to <code>vintagestory.app</code>. In Terminal, cd into the vintagetory.app folder: here we assume it is still located in Downloads, but if you moved it to Applications or somewhere else, then change Downloads to Applications as appropriate:
:  &nbsp;4. Now download Vintage Story (if you didn't already) and double-click it to Unarchive it to <code>vintagestory.app</code>.
:  &nbsp;5. In Terminal, cd into the vintagetory.app folder: here we assume it is still located in Downloads, but if you moved it to Applications or somewhere else, then change Downloads to Applications as appropriate:
::: <code>cd ~/Downloads/vintagestory.app/</code>
::: <code>cd ~/Downloads/vintagestory.app/</code>
:  &nbsp;5. In Terminal, from the vintagestory.app folder, type the following command:
:  &nbsp;6. In Terminal, from the vintagestory.app folder, type the following command:
::: <code>ln -s /usr/local/homebrew/lib/libcairo.2.dylib libcairo.2.dylib</code>
::: <code>ln -s /usr/local/homebrew/lib/libcairo.2.dylib libcairo.2.dylib</code>


That's it. Hopefully it all worked, and as written above, you should only need to do this once - or not at all from game version 1.19.0-rc.8 onwards \o/
That's it. Hopefully it all worked, and as written above, you should only need to do this once - or not at all from game version 1.19.0-rc.8 onwards \o/
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