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Could not find a default catalog url for this OS version. #45

Closed Saya47 closed 4 years ago

Saya47 commented 4 years ago

Hello I have downloaded the 22 MB installer of Mac OS High Sierra on my Sierra VM. And I tried this command: sudo ./installinstallmacos.py And I got this error: Could not find a default catalog url for this OS version.

Is it because the VM is not capable of running High Sierra? Is that why I'm getting this error? How can I achieve a working full 4.5+ GB installer of High Sierra which I'm gonna use as a VM and also install on my Macbook Pro Late 2011?

Thanks very much :)

gregneagle commented 4 years ago

You are getting that error because the script does not support running under 10.12.

You might be able to get what you want by explicitly providing a catalogurl:

sudo ./installinstallmacos.py --catalogurl https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
Saya47 commented 4 years ago

Thanks very much, your link worked!

But I would like to mention that before asking this question, I read the docs folder, and I had tried this link:

--catalogurl Software Update catalog URL used by the tool. Defaults to https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.13seed-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

I also tried downloading the catalog file and trying a local path to the file but in both cases I got this error:

Could not replicate https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.13seed-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog5: Command '[u'/usr/bin/curl', u'-sfL', u'--create-dirs', u'-o', u'./content/catalogs/others/index-10.13seed-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog5', 'https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.13seed-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog5']' returned non-zero exit status 22

But as I've said, your link is different than the one in the docs and it works perfectly :)

Saya47 commented 4 years ago

Oh I just realized, sudo ./installinstallmacos.py --seedprogram * also works and doesn't give me the Could not find a default catalog url for this OS version. error.

And my MBP running El Capitan has also listed Catalina along with other macos versions, which my MBP does not support Catalina, that's weird.

gregneagle commented 4 years ago

It lists what is in the su catalog -- it has zero idea what is compatible with the hardware you are running.

Glad you got it working; updated the docs. Pretty sure all the 10.13seed catalogs are long gone by now.