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General purpose Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates + step-by-step guides ✨
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Mac App Store applications fail to install - Redownload Unavailable with This Apple ID #83

Closed victorhooi closed 4 months ago

victorhooi commented 4 months ago

I just tried to run step 10. to apply changes to my system (finally! =) Yes!) - however, I seem to have hit an issue with the macOS-sourced apps:

$ nix run .#build-switch
Running build-switch for aarch64-darwin
Starting build...
Switching to new generation...
warning: unknown setting 'upgrade-nix-store-path-url'
building the system configuration...
warning: unknown setting 'upgrade-nix-store-path-url'
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
warning: unknown setting 'upgrade-nix-store-path-url'
setting up /run via /etc/synthetic.conf...
setting up Homebrew (/opt/homebrew)...
user defaults...
setting up user launchd services...
Homebrew bundle...
Installing mas
Installing docker
Installing visual-studio-code
Installing discord
Installing zoom
Installing 1password
Error: No downloads began
No downloads
Installing 1password has failed!
Installing wireguard
Error: No downloads began
No downloads
Installing wireguard has failed!
Homebrew Bundle failed! 2 Brewfile dependencies failed to install.

During the install, I got this popup dialog:

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Do you know if this is expected? Or what's the workaround?

dustinlyons commented 4 months ago

This is an underlying thing with the mas terminal application. If you've previously downloaded an application using the Mac App Store before using mas, and thus it's already 'attached' to your account, you get this error. Apple doesn't want you to "redownload" it.

There may be some way to fix it, but it's mas related and not specific to Nix or this configuration.