I'm trying to learn modding and so am trying to install Forge on my Mac.  I downloaded minecraftforge-src-1.4.7-6.6.1.524.zip, uncompressed it, and ran install.sh and got the following error:

 

 

================ Forge ModLoader Setup Start ===================

Downloaded mcp7.26a.zip

Extracting MCP to '/Users/<REDACTED>/code/java/minecraft/forge/forge/mcp'

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "install.py", line 49, in <module>

    main(os.path.abspath('mcp'))

  File "install.py", line 18, in main

    setup_mcp(fml_dir, mcp_dir, True)

  File "/Users/<REDACTED>/code/java/minecraft/forge/forge/fml/fml.py", line 650, in setup_mcp

    if not download_mcp(mcp_dir, fml_dir):

  File "/Users/<REDACTED>/code/java/minecraft/forge/forge/fml/fml.py", line 628, in download_mcp

    zf.extractall(mcp_dir)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/zipfile.py", line 940, in extractall

    self.extract(zipinfo, path, pwd)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/zipfile.py", line 928, in extract

    return self._extract_member(member, path, pwd)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/zipfile.py", line 965, in _extract_member

    target = file(targetpath, "wb")

IOError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/Users/<REDACTED>/code/java/minecraft/forge/forge/mcp/conf/client.srg'

 

 

I repeated this several times with multiple versions of forge, including the latest, and got this same problem every time. 

I manually installed MCP in the forge/mcp folder it made and tried again and it kind of worked, but this still shouldn't have happened. 

Any ideas?  Did I just not install it right or something? 

 

Thanks,

electrodude

Bump.

 

Also, my mac runs 10.6.8 and I got this to work a while ago for MC 1.3.2 before the days of FML, but that time I installed forge inside of the MCP folder instead of the other way around. 

 

electrodude

Problem Solved.  It works better if you use a version of python that's actually somewhat recent...