Re: Portmod - Mod Manager
Posted: 04 Sep 2019, 08:55
Awesome, thanks for your work
Sorry for the late response, I've been rather busy and haven't had much spare time.darkbasic wrote: ↑05 Sep 2019, 10:12 I'm currently testing it, may I suggest adding sets for the http://modding-openmw.com mod groups, like "Total Overhaul" and "Expanded Vanilla"?
How exactly do I run portmod or the omwmerge command? I ask here because I can't find any better place.The first thing you should do after installing is to synchronize the mod repository. This can be done through portmod via omwmerge --sync.
Thank you. I should have said it but I am running Kubuntu 18.04. portmod got installed in ~/.local/lib/python3.6/. However it started working after I restarted my PC and I didn't need to change PATH at all.bmw wrote: ↑23 Oct 2019, 23:02 The only interface is via the command line, so you need to open a terminal to interact with it (or command prompt, or whatever you want to call it).
Importantly, you almost certainly want to make sure that the directory it's installed in is in your PATH environment variable (otherwise the commands would only work by calling the executable by its path). A simple way to check for this would be just to try running `omwmerge` in a terminal and see if the executable is found. If it is, then you don't need to do anything, otherwise, you need to modify your PATH. If you're on Windows and don't know how to modify your PATH environment variable, I'm hoping you can look that up, as I'm not familiar with the process and there should be plenty of guides out there.
The location of the install directory will vary depending on how you installed it and your platform. If you used `pip install --user ...` then it will either be in `~/.local/bin` on Linux and OSX, or `C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Python36\Scripts` on Windows (this presumably varies depending on the version of python you're using) (details from here). Without `--user` it probably should install it to a location that is already in your path, but I'm not precisely sure where except on Linux (which should be `/usr/bin`)
It should then be able to be run by opening a terminal and entering the appropriate command.
I'll add this information to the wiki too, as I'm sure you won't be the only person with this question, or a similar one.