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Snow Leopard won't reinstall already-installed program
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Snow Leopard won't reinstall already-installed program


  • Subject: Snow Leopard won't reinstall already-installed program
  • From: Xochitl Lunde <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:29:47 +0000
  • Thread-topic: Snow Leopard won't reinstall already-installed program

I recently rebuilt my Mac OS daemon (after a very long time) without making any changes.  When I run the installer on Snow Leopard for some reason it now tells me “Application can’t be installed on this disk.  A newer version of this software already exists on this disk.”

 

It used to just install over and over on top of itself, which I thought was designed behavior so that a user could re-run the package if he accidentally deleted some application files.

 

The application has been removed from the disk and unloaded from launchctl, but now I can’t install it again.  What’s changed?

 

I was using Iceberg 1.2.9 to make the package, which I did not update since the last time I built the package.  I’m at Mac OS X 10.6.8 10K549 and Software Update doesn’t give me any new choices. 

 

Thanks,

Xochitl

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