Installing Baldur's Gate II on OSX 10.3.5

I have had Baldur's Gate II - Shadows of Amn for quite some time and just decided to install it on my new Powerbook G4 17“ running OSX 10.3.5 and found that the installer would crash with an error that you do not have the correct permissions. This is happening because at some stage Apple has locked down the permisions on the root directory of your hard drive which is where Baldur's Gate wishes to install itself. This is how you fix the problem so the installed once again works:

1. Open the Terminal Application (found in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder)
2. In Terminal type the following (each line is a command and must be followed by pressing ENTER):

cd / sudo mkdir ”BGII - SoA“ [enter your password] sudo chown [username] ”BGII - SoA“

1. You will need to enter your short username (same as your home directory name). This will have created a directory that Baldur's Gate can be installed into.
2. Install Baldur's Gate like normal.

This will create the directory required and set the right permissions on the directory so that Baldur's Gate can installed correctly into the folder. You might also want to download the latest patch for the software also.

Links
MacPlay Home Page - makers of mac version of Baldur's Gate II
Patch Download