softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer broken

rpayne
Contributor II

Anyone else seeing this? softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer returns Install failed with error: Update not found no mater which version is specified.

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alexjdale
Valued Contributor III

I've had terrible results with this command since it was released and it rarely works for me. The installinstallmacos.py script is far more reliable. I use it with https://github.com/grahampugh/erase-install even on OS versions that support --fetch-full-installer.

chobee
New Contributor II

@alexjdale Thank you for that link! Answered a few problems I had.