- El Capitan No Packages Were Eligible For Install
- El Capitan No Packages Were Eligible For Installment
- El Capitan No Packages Were Eligible For Install On Imac
Apr 18, 2016 OS X No Packages were eligible for install repaired. “No packages were eligible for install” is a message that appears when attempting to install OS X El Capitan on older macs. MacBooks are a very popular purchase in Melbourne and around Australia so it is important to understand the reasoning behind why this message appears. Please watch version 2 of this video here: the 'install failed' and 'No packages were eligible for install'. My end goal was to install macOS 10.13 High Sierra. I read online that one must upgrade to OS X 10.11 before upgrading to macOS 10.13 if one is starting from OS X 10.6. This upgrade route did not work for me no matter how many solutions I attempted. Unibeast 6.2.0 - installed USB drive makes it into the installer and shows '13 minutes' at beginning. About 5 seconds later, the subject text appears along with 'No eligible packages found.' Re-downloaded a fresh copy of 'Install OS X El Capitan' from the App Store, re-ran Unibeast 6.2.0 on an. 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. Is there a way to get this to work?
I have an older, MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) that I intend to give as a gift.
For security reasons, I decided that I was a good to format the drive and reinstall OS X El Capitan.
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.
El Capitan No Packages Were Eligible For Install
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.
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:
El Capitan No Packages Were Eligible For Installment
This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer.
El Capitan No Packages Were Eligible For Install On Imac
I 'found' a Install OS X El Capitan.app package and was able to create the bootable media.