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Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS
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Trouble with apple certificates #560

Closed magictom42 closed 2 years ago

magictom42 commented 2 years ago

I am having trouble with wget during download of the su catalog in the macos-virtualbox script on a Mac (Catalina). When I start wget isolated, the log file says:

--2021-11-20 16:47:38-- https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/cert.pem' Certificates loaded: 132 Resolving swscan.apple.com... 2.19.100.101 Caching swscan.apple.com => 2.19.100.101 Connecting to swscan.apple.com|2.19.100.101|:443... connected. Created socket 6. Releasing 0x00007fcfd275d470 (new refcount 1). ERROR: The certificate of 'swscan.apple.com' is not trusted.

I tried to work around this wget step by downloading the file via Firefox. This worked, but later on, when it comes to the installation within the virtual machine, I get errors saying that some installation files are damaged. I have installed the ca-certificate package, but that didn't help. Any idea?

myspaghetti commented 2 years ago

If you're on a Debian-based system (like Ubuntu) update your trusted certificates with sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates

If you're on a different type of system either find a way to update the system's certificates or edit line 257 in the script to allow untrusted certificates: wgetargs="--quiet --continue --show-progress --timeout=60 --no-check-certificate"

I do recommend trying to load the correct certificates, it'll generally make your system more secure.

magictom42 commented 2 years ago

@myspaghetti Thanks, I got it working now! I used the --no-check-certificate option.