Re: Snow Leopard won't reinstall already-installed program
Re: Snow Leopard won't reinstall already-installed program
- Subject: Re: Snow Leopard won't reinstall already-installed program
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:17:36 +0200
Check with the pkgutil command line tool if forgetting your package
fixes the issue.
In 99.99% of cases, this happens because you really have a newer
version on disk.
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Xochitl Lunde
<email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.”
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> 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.
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>
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> The application has been removed from the disk and unloaded from launchctl,
> but now I can’t install it again. What’s changed?
>
>
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> 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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