Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store.

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.software, comp.sys.mac.systems
Subject	Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store.
Date	2020-11-12 19:17 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<i15g2fFlfn4U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2020-11-12, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
>
> You can download full installers using the softwareupdate utility on the
> command line, at least in theory. I have not gotten it to work but I am
> on the Big Sur Beta.
>
> softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.15.7
> softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.14.6
> softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.13.6
> softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.12.6

+1

I've used this method in the past to refresh my archived installers
(which are signed with certificates that eventually expire and are
renewed by Apple periodically).

I just downloaded all of the latest installers for everything back to
10.11.6 with this method, and it works well. Recommended.

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Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-11 16:38 -0600
  Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2020-11-11 23:10 +0000
    Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-11 20:14 -0600
      Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-11-11 21:49 -0500
        Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-11 20:53 -0600
          Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-11-11 22:01 -0500
        Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-11 20:54 -0600
      Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2020-11-12 08:23 +0000
        Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-12 15:13 +0000
          Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2020-11-12 20:37 +0000
            Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-13 10:02 +0000
              Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-13 16:52 +0000
                Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-13 20:17 +0000
                Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-13 21:22 +0000
                Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-11-13 21:29 +0000
                Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-13 23:49 +0000
                Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-14 00:46 +0000
                Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-11-14 10:23 +0000
                Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-14 22:10 +0000
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                Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-14 15:01 -0600
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          Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-13 09:49 +0000
        Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-12 20:05 -0600
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      Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-12 19:17 +0000
        Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-11-12 11:28 -0800
          Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-12 19:53 +0000
      Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2020-11-12 20:39 +0000
        Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-11-12 16:05 -0500
        Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-12 22:44 +0000
          Re: Can't find older mac OS versions in Apple's App Store. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-12 20:19 -0600

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