Rosetta Download - install from DVD won't work due to software updates!

Hi

When I finished upgrading my MBP with the SL disc that came along with the box. Then when I tried to install Office 2008, it says it needed Rosetta for the installation, and Software Update automatically pops up, without showing the window, and somehow install it in the background, when it was done, I was able to continue installing Office.

Maybe you just try directly install what you want and see what happens?

Cheers

You can install Rosetta by inserting the Snow Leopard disk.

Click on the "Optional Install" folder and then the Optional Install.mpkg...

Click continue etc., and then put a checkmark in the box to install Rosetta...

bonzabuy wrote:
I need Rosetta for an ATO Australian Tax Digital Certificate... Using the SL install disk says" installation may not work check the latest combo download"

I tried reinstalling Rosetta from the Snow Leopard DVD on a Mac updated to 10.6.1. I did not get a message saying "installation may not work." Instead I got a notification that "the installation was completed successfully," with the following advisory:

"You may have installed Mac OS X software that is older than your current version of Mac OS X, and may not work properly. To ensure the best experience please download and install the latest version of the Mac OS X Combo update from http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/. You should do this even if you currently have the latest Mac OS X update installed."

I assume that the advisory was triggered by the OS version being greater than 10.6 to "future proof" this DVD, & eventually there will be some Snow Leopard Combo updates.

Anyway, the important part is that currently, there appears to be only one version of Rosetta for Snow Leopard available, & it is installed successfully by this procedure (if it wasn't already installed, which it probably already was).

I think that your problem with the CSI (ATO) program may be elsewhere, since from what I can tell it is a Java application meant to run inside a browser. See http://www.ato.gov.au/help/bp/printcontent.asp?doc=/content/help/bp/32902.htm for more about this.

[Here is a link for the update|http://support.apple.com/kb/DL930?viewlocale=en_US]. You also should be able to get it from Apple Menu > Software Updates.

Note that he was looking for a "combo" update, which this is not….

Right, but I think the 6.1 is the best he will do right now and I was referring to the update you mentioned. And, OP, be sure and note how the message received by RC-R differed from yours--possible since he had 6.1 already installed.

As it's the first update it's both a combo and a delta. Only with subsequent updates is there a difference.

Only with subsequent updates is there a difference.

This is probably but not necessarily true for this update. In the past, delta updates typically contained a mix of patches to some existing OS files & replacements for others, which reduced the download size. Combo updates always contained only replacement files, one of the reasons they were larger than the delta ones.

Also, in the past a delta update could not be applied more than once to the same installed version of the OS -- users would get a message saying it didn't meet the requirements because the OS was already at the same version & it required the version of the OS immediate preceding that one. OTOH, combos could be applied repeatedly because their requirements included the version they updated the OS to. Together with the "all replacement" nature of the combos, this made them handy for some quick fixes that would otherwise require reinstalling & updating the OS from scratch.

The 10.6.1 update seems to not care if it has already been applied, even though its System Requirements are listed as Mac OS X v10.6 & do not include 10.6.1, so maybe it is something new.

Since 6.1 it is not labeled a combo (whatever it is technically), the discussion may have added some clarity for the OP, and that's good.

I did read the post.

I thought you were trying to use the "Install" part of the disk rather than clicking on the "Optional" install folder.

Just trying to help as the "Optional" install folder works for me and many others.

Updated SL is only 10.6.1 and has no effect on Rosetta....

Good Luck

Last post for me on this topic.

You can also use an application called "Pacifist" to extract and install Rosetta directly from the Snow Leopard disk.

The Snow Leopard software update does NOT have Rosetta on it so the 10.6.1 update will not do you any good. You need to use the Snow Leopard 10.6 disk...

If the "Optional" install folder on the Snow Leopard disk does not work, then download Pacifist and install Rosetta directly from the Snow Leopard disk.

Over and out and good luck...

Before it gets obscured by all the discussion of how to get Rosetta installed, I will re-emphasize that I don't think Rosetta is the problem here because:

1. It probably is installed

2. The CSI (ATO) program is a Java application meant to run inside a browser.