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I just tried this and got "Install failed with error: Update not found". A few days back I was searching around for how to download old macOS/OS X versions, so
by dceddia 5y ago
I just tried this and got "Install failed with error: Update not found".
A few days back I was searching around for how to download old macOS/OS X versions, so that I could run a VM to test my app [0]. For the first hour or so, all I could find was sites that linked to the official App Store downloads for the last 3 OSes, which didn't work. The page would open in the App Store app, I'd click "Get", and it would say that it wasn't found.
This command unfortunately did the same, which makes me wonder if this is something to do with my Apple account, or maybe that they've taken down those downloads?
What ended up working for me was dosdude's patchers:
10.12 Sierra: http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html
10.13 High Sierra: http://dosdude1.com/highsierra/ http://dosdude1.com/highsierra/
10.14 Mojave: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/ http://dosdude1.com/mojave/
10.15 Catalina: http://dosdude1.com/catalina/ http://dosdude1.com/catalina/
These tools are meant for patching old OS X versions to run on unsupported Macs, but that wasn't the feature I needed. The important thing for me was their "Download" button, which downloads the installer directly from Apple's servers.
It was a huge relief and I was finally able to test my app properly on older (virtualized) OSes using Parallels [1], which was even having a sale at the time (maybe still?).
0: my app is Recut, an automated video editor - https://getrecut.com https://getrecut.com - which supports back to 10.13 High Sierra
1: https://www.parallels.com/ https://www.parallels.com/
- userbinator 5y agoYou can find the direct download links manually by looking for the package in the sucatalog for the OS version of interest: https://gist.github.com/meyer/b14c87d162366f0428a99cd2ff0d0b8b https://gist.github.com/meyer/b14c87d162366f0428a99cd2ff0d0b... There's also this interestingly named tool which essentially automates the process: https://github.com/corpnewt/gibMacOS https://github.com/corpnewt/gibMacOS
- dceddia 5y agoI saw that the dosdude patchers were downloading those (or similar) .sucatalog files but they're pretty large and I had trouble figuring out which URLs in there corresponded to the OS installers I needed, or whether the installer was maybe broken up into parts or something... so after a brief period of desire to figure out how that file was organized, I downloaded all 3 patchers and clicked the Download button, heh. That gib tool looks helpful, and... wow, I haven't seen that word since the Quake days!
- miles 5y ago> I just tried this and got "Install failed with error: Update not found". Sorry, the option requires Catalina or higher. Just tested under Big Sur: % softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.14.6 Scanning for 10.14.6 installer Installing: 16.0%
- dceddia 5y agoInteresting! I'm running Big Sur too, 11.4. Weird. Maybe I need to refresh my Apple login or something.