The Mac CKAN Struggle

[RabidToothBrush]

Hi so i'm trying to install realism overhaul on 1.8.1 and I found it was very frustrating to install it manually so I tried to install CKAN. It was going pretty well, I installed CKAN and put it in my KSP folder. The problem is when I try to install a mod, the keybind is command D, but it just doesn't work. I was looking at CKAN tutorials but they're all using windows so their version of CKAN is different because i'm on mac. Is that normal? Anyways, sorry if this was kind of vague, I you know any CKAN tutorials for mac users let me know. Thanks.

Update: so i'm pretty confident i've installed CKAN correctly but for some stupid reason I can't figure out how to actually install mods using it with mac. Here's an image of CKAN as it is for me if it helps. https://imgur.com/a/1jMhljQ

Edited February 21, 2021 by RabidToothBrush

[steve_v]

On 2/21/2021 at 1:53 AM, RabidToothBrush said:

the keybind is command D, but it just doesn't work.

IIRC it's Ctrl+D to download from the details screen, and "+" to install from the main screen. I don't have anything running macOS to verify that though, and the "+" might be problematic.
You should get a keybind prompt alongside the "F10 - Menu" at the bottom of the screen anyway, so I suspect something other than just the wrong key is going on. Does CKAN emit any errors on the command line? Have you selected a KSP install? Does CKAN have write permissions in your KSP directory etc.?

TBH I'm just guessing here as I don't really use the consoleui interface and I can't muck about with it from a screenshot. You'll probably have a better chance of useful bites if you post in the CKAN thread, poke @HebaruSan directly, or try one of the other help channels (github issue or discord) listed in the wiki (also instructions 'n stuff there).
FWIW there was some discussion of keybinds on MacOS in the consoleui (you don't get the hideous normal winforms GUI, because Apple) pull, so that might be worth a look too.

If all else fails you could always try installing RO with the command-line interface, that's pretty indestructible and doesn't _have_ any keybinds to not work. It's also pretty verbose if something is going wrong.

[Omni122]

https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/wiki/Installing-CKAN-on-macOS

Use this installation guide, CKAN doesn't really work on Mac but this will help you get it working with Mono.

 

[HebaruSan]

@RabidToothBrush, your keyboard focus is in the search box. Press tab or up arrow or down arrow or page up or page down or enter to move the focus to the list of mods, and additional key stroke tips will appear at the bottom: