Problems Installing Beem manually (resolved!)

[Asterix]

I've been playing wesnoth for like 2 years, but i just started playing online and using add ons page. This is because i am on dial up internet. So what i do is i download add ons at school on the website from a mac and bring them home via USB drive to my 2 computers(windows xp + Vista). This has been working as i take the "_main" out of file and put in campaigns folder. The problem arose when i tried to install BEEM. i unzipped it and it it came out as one big file instead of multiple folders. when i open it it says "open with...". I'm having the same problem with campaigns and scenario mps.

I hope some one can tell me what i'm doing wrong as it's probibly the minorist of minor mistakes. Oh and can any body tell me if there was already a topic with this subject? as far as my searching goes i couldn't find any anwsers. Oh and this is only my second post so i'm wondering if i posted it in the right spot

[HomerJ]

Forgive me my ignorance but what is Beem?

Although I don't have any experience on Mac usage, it should be possible to download a zip-file (or tarball) with a mac, get it on your usb, copy from usb to windows and then extract.


Greetz
HomerJ

[Asterix]

BEEM is an era. (balanced extended era modification). And yes all my other eras (era of magic...) worked to do the usb thing, but All the other ones extracted as a folder with folders inside with a _main.cgf. BEEM, all of the scenario maps and all of the campaigns came out as one file with this ending: .tar.bz2 (BEEM.tar.bz2) and invasion from the unkown (campaign) extracted as this: Invasion_from_the_Unknown.tar.bz2 in one file. This is probibly normal, but i don't know what to do with it from here. i'm putting the eras in c/program files/bfw/userdata/data/campaigns. Thats for my XP,
C/users/(my user)/appdata/local/virtualstore/program files/BFW/userdata/data/campaigns for Vista. should i be putting the campaigns in a different folder? or with the eras?

[HomerJ]

.tar.bz2 (BEEM.tar.bz2) and invasion from the unkown (campaign) extracted as this: Invasion_from_the_Unknown.tar.bz2 in one file.

There you go, tar.bz2 is still a kind of an archive (as far as I understand it it's basically the same as a zip without compression). You need to extract the files the same way you would treat a zip.
7-Zip can be your weapon of choice.

Greetz
HomerJ

[pauxlo]

There you go, tar.bz2 is still a kind of an archive (as far as I understand it it's basically the same as a zip without compression).

Not quite.

.tar is an archive format (bundles multiple files into one), while .bz2 (BZip2) compresses the whole thing. Since it applies the compresson after bundling multiple files (which, being WML, are quite similar), it even gives better compression than .zip (which compresses each file individually, and then bundles them) – additionally bzip2 is a better compression algorithm than zip (but slower).
But it is a bit slower, if you only want to add or extract some individual files, since it has to unpack everything, basically.

Paŭlo

[Asterix]

But the others worked, so how come these don't? Any way if i install 7zip, it will work?

[HomerJ]

.tar is an archive format (bundles multiple files into one), while .bz2 (BZip2) compresses the whole thing. Since it applies the compresson after bundling multiple files (which, being WML, are quite similar), it even gives better compression than .zip (which compresses each file individually, and then bundles them) – additionally bzip2 is a better compression algorithm than zip (but slower).But it is a bit slower, if you only want to add or extract some individual files, since it has to unpack everything, basically.
Paŭlo

Thanks for clearing that up.
And yes, 7-Zip works, I just tried it myself. Have fun now! Oh, and btw if everything works out fine for you it would be nice if you added "[resolved]" or something similar to the topic title.


Greetz
HomerJ

[Asterix]

i downloaded it and it showed up just as when i unzipped it with winRAR. It came out with same ending and a blank icon. when i double click it it askes what i want to open it with.

[HomerJ]

i downloaded it and it showed up just as when i unzipped it with winRAR. It came out with same ending and a blank icon. when i double click it it askes what i want to open it with.

So then why don't choose "open with winrar" or 7-zip...

This might be due to file association issues, but once you open it with winrar or 7-zip you can click on "always open with this program".


Greetz
HomerJ

[Asterix]

no, sorry. i meant that when i opened it with 7 zip it did the same thing

[HomerJ]

I don't get it.
I downloaded the file called "beem.tar.bz2" today. I opened in 7-zip.
Inside was a file that was called "beem.tar" which I extracted. I opened the extracted "beem.tar" file again with 7-zip and saw a folder "beem", inside various folders, some copying/copyright files credits, changelog and two config files.

So what did you do wrong what I was doing right

Suggestions anyone?

Hm, do you have "hide known file extensions" (or whatever it is called in english) activated? That could make you think "that's the same file again!" after you extracted.

But you are aware that you can choose a program to open a file with when you double click and the dialogue "open with" shows up?


PM me if you still can't get it to go, I will send you a zip of that archive, so you at least can get back to playing. But that won't solve your problem...


Greetz
HomerJ

[Asterix]

I WIN!! it finally worked. i don't know what i'm doing different, but now it works

Thanx homerj for all your imput

[HomerJ]

I WIN!! it finally worked. i don't know what i'm doing different, but now it works

Great! Rock on!


Greetz
HomerJ