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.
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
Oh dear… When trying to install OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) you may encounter this message. This happens because the the installer certificates are no longer valid when checked against the clock of your mac.
Don’t panic though as this is easily fixed using Terminal, so don’t restart immediately.
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- Click Utilities on the menu bar
- Select Terminal
- Type date 062112422016
- Exit Terminal
- Click Restart
When you restart the mac and try the installer again it will now believe the certificates are valid and will continue as it should.
Mac Os No Packages Were Eligible For Install
During the installation of OS X El Capitan on my Mac Book Pro, the install fails and I am left with 'OS X Could not be installed on your computer File System verify or repair failed. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.' No matter how many restarts I do it does not install. Also repair does not work in disk utility. Here in Belgium schools are locked down due to #coronavirus. With the school of my two oldest kids now switching to remote teaching, I took the time to set up my old MacBook Pro (model late 2008) for my two oldest kids to use. That didn’t go without any hiccups though: the OS X installer Continue reading 'Installing old OS X versions: fixing “OS X could not be installed on your. The simplest way to set it (if you have no OS installed on the machine) is to boot the install media, open the terminal and check the date (type date). The following information was found on someones site (sorry I forget which), but I have included it here to make it easier to correct this issue.