Installing scripts and plug ins for Mac OS

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

If one is to believe this...perhaps the mystery of installing .py on mac OS is solved by this and related articles...I've yet to check it out but will tomorrow after I have had some sleep...perhaps another mac user might like to try these tips....

http://www.ehow.com/how_5713363_add-plug-ins-gimp.html

2-ton · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:59 am **(#2)**

I have to run off to work right now, but so far I have not had any trouble installing plug-ins on my Snow Leopard. I just drag and drop the file into my username/library/application support/gimp/plugins(.py) or scripts(.scm) folder. But I will check out the article tonight, looks interesting. One thing is, I do not even remember how/when I installed python or where I got my version from.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:08 am **(#3)**

Thanks for researching and posting this akky. I changed your subject line to include Mac OS so other mac users can find it easier. :mrgreen:

An added note here:
Python plug-ins (.py extension) go into the plug-ins folder.
Scripts (.scm extension) go into the scripts folder.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

2-ton I can install them there but the .py ones dont seem to show up in where they are supposed to and I have no idea why

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

well I have to tell you that I have found at least one of my python-fu plug ins working and thats a vertical text one that I put in there

cecilia · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:15 am **(#6)**

akky wrote:

2-ton I can install them there but the .py ones dont seem to show up in where they are supposed to and I have no idea why

did you check to see if the permissions are set to "Execute" ?

Oregonian · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:17 am **(#7)**

akky wrote:

I can install them there but the .py ones dont seem to show up in where they are supposed to and I have no idea why

When you install a .py one into the plug-ins folder, refreshing scripts doesn't work. You need to close and re-open GIMP.

As Cecilia said, in Linux, and I do not know if this is true for Mac, the file needs to be given permission to execute by right-clicking the file, Properties > Permissions and the box checked for allowing it to execute.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

Well I dont get a box anything resembling that one...

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

execute files is usually not a mac thing to do.

cecilia · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:16 pm **(#10)**

akky wrote:

Well I dont get a box anything resembling that one...

you can't get the Properties of a .py file????

can you get Properties for any file?

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:21 pm **(#11)**

right Akky, I have never had to do permissions, but I"m the admin so maybe I always have permission, lol. I do remember seeing some menu where the admin can give read and write permission for the whole computer, though. All I have ever done is drop the .py programs into the plug-ins folder.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16161

I think it depends on the users machine it was either compiled on or written on.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

I can get the info regarding any file...but not in the manner you suggest... LOL

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

2-ton wrote:

right Akky, I have never had to do permissions, but I"m the admin so maybe I always have permission, lol. I do remember seeing some menu where the admin can give read and write permission for the whole computer, though. All I have ever done is drop the .py programs into the plug-ins folder.

I'm admin on my computer as well. It wasnt I who suggested the permission settings btw.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

ok some people need to understand that Mac things dont necessarily work the same as Windows or Linux things...and we dont necessarily have the same way of doing things for the same result.....