We have OS 10.5.3 and have downloaded the newest version of Safari (3.1.1). However, it will not install. The message says that this version is only for OS versions 10.5.2 and newer, which we have! Any suggestions would be welcomed.
I had the same problem after I installed 10.5.3 i.e. Safari 3.1.1 installer asked for Mac 10.5.2 or higher. But then I checked and found that my Safari version had already moved to 3.1.1 along with Mac 10.5.3
Hope this helps. Check your safari version:
Click the Apple icon in top-left corner of the screen
Select "About this mac > More info > Software > Applications > Safari"
I can't get this to work. It won't even start the installer because it tells me it won't install because the OS version I am using it more recent than the one on the installer DVD. The Option button only takes me to the screen where I can either archive the current install or erase the hard drive and start from scratch.
It's still a problem, and although using the OSX install disk to install an older version is a decent enough work around, it's still not ideal.
I just wanted to reinstall Safari as I was having some problems with the app, specifically spell checking, but don't want to mess around with external superdrive or the comedy that is Remote Disk.
Should just be able to download latest version of Safari (3.1.1) and install on latest version of OSX (10.5.3)
the problem still remains!!! after installing Safari from my Mac OS Install disk I wasn't able to launch Safari at all. A popup opened saying that this version (2.0.1) isn't usable with my version of Mac OSX.
Even the software update doesn't mention Safari at all.
Does anyone have another solution?????
It's really annoying.
Same problem here. I have 10.5.3 and the installer won't run. The fix that's been mentioned is great to find, but it's almost embarrassing that something like this won't work. I hope this gets corrected. I bet Firefox 3 will install and work.
The same thing happened to me. After upgrading to 10.5.3 I checked Safari and it was at 3.0.4. So I downloaded 3.1.1 and got the +*You cannot install Safari on this volume. This update requires Mac OS X 10.5.2 or newer*+ dialog. Upon seeing your post I checked the Safari version again and it was miraculously at 3.1.1!
Could it be that the actual problem is an erroneous +dialog message+ ?
The troubling part is that there's no indication that anything happened beyond the version number changing. A .1 version change generally involves more file-swapping than what I experienced (none, as far as I could tell).
I have since learned that I had accidentally installed Leopard on 2 separate partitions, thus installing Safari on each of those partitions. Apparently, when I ran the older version of Safari, it didn't want to be upgraded because it wasn't on the same partition as the running system, and that's when the error dialog appeared. Version 3.1.1
was on the partition with the upgraded, running system.
This Safari upgrade didn't necessarily happen as a result of running the Safari upgrader. I just erased everything, reinstalled Leopard on one partition only and upgraded to 10.5.3. I'm now running Safari 3.1.1 even though I didn't run the Safari upgrade.
To those who are experiencing this problem: Do you have more than one copy of Safari? Are they on separate partitions? Be sure. You want to upgrade the one copy of Safari that coexists with your "blessed" drive or partition.
Prompted to update OS, did that. Now at 10.5.4, Safari wouldn't run. Uninstalled Safari went to the site to download 3.1.1. Red exclamation point on hard drive.
Don't feel like going back to old install cds... let's get a fix.
Chalk me up as another user that gets the red exclamation mark and can't install Safari. Some of my sites just need to run on Safari even though I am a huge user and proponent of Firefox
