Software :: Apple Offers Advice On 10.5.6 Upgrade
Dec 19, 2008
December 18, 2008 4:03 PM PST
Apple offers advice on 10.5.6 upgrade problems
Posted by Tom Krazit
Apple has acknowledged an issue encountered by some Leopard users trying to install the company's latest update released Monday. In a support document posted to its site, Apple described an issue in which a Mac would hang on a "Configuring installation" window when trying to install Mac OS X 10.5.6. That was apparently the result of an incomplete update getting seeded into the Software Update process, and Mac OS X will freak out if it tries to install a partially downloaded update.
Apple recommends that if you encounter this problem, or have already, that you force Software Update to quit, remove the partial update from your library, and re-download the update. If you chose to download the standalone update from Apple's site rather than the combo update, you might also have had this problem; when in doubt, choose the combo update option.
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