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softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer broken

  • December 4, 2020
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rpayne
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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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  • Contributor
  • December 4, 2020

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.


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  • May 13, 2021

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