[MAC] How to install KSP 1.12.5 for Mac (Solution found!)

[Benoit Hage]

Can someone tell me how to install Kerbal from this website: https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/downloads ?

I can't find an installer version for MAC. There is something with a script to run, but I don't see the script file in the .zip.

Many thanks in advance.

Edited yesterday at 05:39 PM by Benoit Hage

[Benoit Hage]

OK I found a solution! 

- unzip the game folder
- right click on the KSP.app, then click "Show package contents"
- click on the folder "Contents"
- click on the folder "MacOs"
- double click on "KSP"

voilà, it works

[Lisias]

What MacOS you are using?

At least on Mojave (that I still use due my 32 bits games), every directory with a `.app` extension launches the program when double-clicked from Finder (or using `open KSP.app` from a console).

Check if there's a file called `Info.plist` inside `KSP.app/Contents`. Mine have the executable attribute set, and looks like this:

Spoiler

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
    <string>English</string>
    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
    <string>KSP</string>
    <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
    <string>Unity Player version 2019.4.18f1 (3310a4d4f880). (c) 2021 Unity Technologies ApS. All rights reserved.</string>
    <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
    <string>PlayerIcon.icns</string>
    <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
    <string>unity.Squad.Kerbal Space Program</string>
    <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
    <string>6.0</string>
    <key>CFBundleName</key>
    <string>KSP</string>
    <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
    <string>APPL</string>
    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
    <string>1.12.4</string>
    <key>CFBundleSupportedPlatforms</key>
    <array>
      <string>MacOSX</string>
    </array>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>0</string>
    <key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
    <string>public.app-category.games</string>
    <key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>
    <string>10.9.0</string>
    <key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
    <dict>
      <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
      <true />
    </dict>
    <key>NSMainNibFile</key>
    <string>MainMenu</string>
    <key>NSPrincipalClass</key>
    <string>PlayerApplication</string>
    <key>UnityBuildNumber</key>
    <string>3310a4d4f880</string>
  </dict>
</plist>

And, yest, it's saying "1.12.4" and not "1.12.5" - this is the 1.12.5 that came from Steam when I installed 1.12.5!

 

Edited 16 hours ago by Lisias
Kraken damned auto-correctors!

[Benoit Hage]

Hi @Lisias

My version of MacOS is Sonoma 14.6.1.

The problem was that when I ran the KSP.app in the folder, the game did not load. I just saw a black screen with a yellow loading bar that was not moving. 

In the .zip, there is no ".app" folder.

[Lisias]

Since you worked around the issue, from this point is for the sake of curiosity ("for science!!").

Could you please run the following command in the terminal and then send me the file it will create?

cd <KSP_DIRECTORY>
ls -lR > ~/Desktop/KSP.DIR.txt

---
where <KSP_DIRECTORY> is where you unzipped your game, you should find a "readme.txt" file there, as well a "buildID.txt" one.

Then publish the file on dropbox or something, it will be a file called "KSP.DIR.txt" in your Desktop - it will be placed randomly somewhere on it.

It will be a very, VERY big file, don't try to paste it here! For example, this is a small bit of mine:

.:
total 3476
drwxr-xr-x  2 lisias staff      64 Nov 28 00:54 AutoSpawn
drwxr-xr-x 16 lisias staff     512 Feb 14 09:08 GameData
drwxr-xr-x  2 lisias staff      64 Jan 13  2023 Internals
drwxr-xr-x  3 lisias staff      96 Jan 12  2023 KSP.app
-rw-r--r--  1 lisias staff 3142760 Feb 14 16:39 KSP.log
drwxr-xr-x  3 lisias staff      96 Jan 12  2023 KSPLauncher.app
-rwxr-xr-x  1 lisias staff   14346 Jan 12  2023 LegalNotice.txt
drwxr-xr-x 10 lisias staff     320 Jan 13 00:58 Logs
-rw-r--r--  1 lisias staff  178886 Feb 14 16:39 PartDatabase.cfg
drwxr-xr-x  2 lisias staff      64 Jan 13  2023 Parts
-rw-r--r--  1 lisias staff   23538 Feb  1 11:26 Physics.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 lisias staff   23128 Jan 12  2023 Physics.cfg.bkp
drwxr-xr-x 14 lisias staff     448 Feb 14 10:01 PluginData
drwxr-xr-x  2 lisias staff      64 Jan 13  2023 Plugins
drwxr-xr-x  2 lisias staff      64 Jan 13  2023 Resources
drwxr-xr-x 85 lisias staff    2720 Feb 14 21:54 Screenshots
drwxr-xr-x  5 lisias staff     160 Nov  2  2022 Ships
drwxr-xr-x 10 lisias staff     320 Apr  3  2023 UserLoadingMusics
drwxr-xr-x  3 lisias staff      96 Apr  3  2023 UserLoadingScreens
-rwxr-xr-x  1 lisias staff     108 Jan 12  2023 buildID.txt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 lisias staff  427732 Jan 12  2023 readme.txt
drwxr-xr-x 41 lisias staff    1312 Nov 19 09:51 saves
-rw-r--r--  1 lisias staff   36455 Feb 14 15:40 settings.cfg
drwxr-xr-x 97 lisias staff    3104 Feb 14 10:05 thumbs

./AutoSpawn:
total 0

./GameData:
total 456
drwxr-xr-x 14 lisias staff    448 Dec  9 00:51 000_KSPe
-rw-r--r--  1 lisias staff  32256 Dec 17 01:09 000_KSPe.dll
-rw-r--r--  1 lisias staff 186880 Dec 17 01:09 001_KSPe.dll
-rw-r--r--  1 lisias staff  31744 Aug 31 23:38 666_ModuleManagerWatchDog.dll
-rw-r--r--  1 lisias staff   6144 Feb  7 11:48 999_Scale_Redist.dll
drwxr-xr-x 15 lisias staff    480 Aug  3  2024 DistantObject
drwxr-xr-x  6 lisias staff    192 Aug  3  2024 ModularManagement
drwxr-xr-x  8 lisias staff    256 Jan 27 18:42 ModuleManager
-rw-r--r--  1 lisias staff 135168 Feb  7 13:17 ModuleManager.dll
drwxr-xr-x 11 lisias staff    352 Aug 31 23:38 ModuleManagerWatchDog
drwxr-xr-x 28 lisias staff    896 Jan 14  2023 Squad
drwxr-xr-x  4 lisias staff    128 Aug  4  2021 SquadExpansion
drwxr-xr-x  3 lisias staff     96 Feb 12 18:18 net.lisias.ksp

./GameData/000_KSPe:
total 132
-rw-r--r-- 1 lisias staff 35174 Dec 17 01:09 CHANGE_LOG.md

<YADA YADA YADA>

This is my test bed, almost nothing installed other than my testing tools, and this thing had almost 27.000 lines!

Edited 2 hours ago by Lisias
I'm not fully awaken yet...