I have an older, MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) that I intend to give as a gift.

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For security reasons, I decided that I was a good to format the drive and reinstall OS X El Capitan.

Use disk utility and clean drive you will install on. Connect to a wifi or plug in ethernet and download os x (second option I believe.) It will download and then try to install itself and then fail with no packages were eligible message with option to restart. Shut off wifi (top right) or unplug ethernet cord. Once you’ve done that, here’s how to install, reinstall, or upgrade to El Capitan, step by step: Boot from your Recovery HD partition by restarting your Mac while holding down the Command+R keys. The OS X Utilities window appears. Select Reinstall OS X, and click Continue. The OS X El Capitan splash screen appears.

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My first effort was thwarted by an error:

This item is temporarily unavailable.Try again later.

After reading Wiped drive, now can’t reinstall El Capitan from Recovery because the “item is temporarily unavailable”, I supplied a different set of icloud credentials, and the process continued.

Eventually, however, the installation failed with a different message:

No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. Quit the installed to restart your computer and try again.

I tried using 'Internet Recovery' (Option+Command+R) and a bootable USB drive that contained El Capitan, both of which ultimately failed with the same message.

No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. Quit the installed to restart your computer and try again. However, if the model Mac is too new to allow the installation for El Capitan, then message given below will occur when trying to create the Install OS X El Capitan application. Installing El Capiton on an old Mac Book Pro today, I received the error: OS X could not be installed on your computer. No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again. 11 Fixing “No packages were eligible for install” in Sierra Installation Before installing open Terminal (Utilities Terminal) run the following command. It will fix No packages were eligible for install problem, this must be done before clicking Install.

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Is there a way to get this to work?

To create a bootable USB drive, I needed the Install OS X El Capitan.app package.

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Using my MBP 16', I used the Download OS X El Capitan link on Apple's support site to get the installer.

Unfortunately, running the InstallMacOSX.pkg package in the DMG failed:

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This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer.

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I 'found' a Install OS X El Capitan.app package and was able to create the bootable media.