El Capitan. no packages were eligible for install.

These instructions have worked as a charm. Thanks. But there is still an issue.

When I run Disk Utility, it says "problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting". Do you have the solution for this?

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NE

jmaiers, the steps are correct. Just one note for other who may get stuck. OSX may NOT download if you change the system date first or if you retry the steps leaving the date in 2017. To get the download of OSX, make sure the date and time is current first. If you changed it in Terminal, go back and restore it to current date and time. Then let it download, run the install and let if fail. Then go to terminal and change the date and only let the install run again. Also, I had to clean the HDD to make it work. OSX did not want to install over the previous system.

Wow, great advice, thanks. I've been trying to resurrect an old Macbook Air from Lion to High Sierra via El Capitan and this issue was killing me. Would never have deduced it was a date issue on my own.

I still have the same message el captain no packages were eligible for install. I have changed the date it gave me message to contact the software manufacturer for assistance.. it’s been very frustrating

I have to add, after "force"installing el Capitan, my iMac has become very very slow and not working properly, it crashes half of the time and takes ages to do something, if it decides to do it.

If I could I would go back and "undo" it by uninstalling but can't be bothered really, good it was not my main computer.

Hello,

I want your help please help me I have a MacBook with an error ....What the error is?"No packages were eligible to install" I have tried many ways to solve this but it didn't work

I have check my date but it is already right

I press command and r but still it didnt work

Please help me I beg you to help me

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After the online download, it restart and the installation failed… then go in the menubar and open the Terminal, and change the computer date to 2016 using the command “date 020100002016” then press enter. Close the Terminal, and it will reopen the installation window. Now you can click the Restart button. It will reboot and start the installation normally without issue. You can update the OS without problems. The issue is only with a clean installation or a reinstallation.

Yes. I used this solution two months ago and was so relieved this worked. I'd been searching for a solution for over 6 months, tried many things but no luck, until now. I hope you have success with this like I did.

Make sure to set the appropriate date, I noticed that some people uses a date that was not working for me. That's why it keep spinning... If everything is ok, it won't spin.

In the installation window, go in the menubar and open the Terminal, and change the date using the command “date 020100002016” (without the quotes) and press enter. Close the Terminal, and it will reopen the installation window.

Was still having trouble with this even after changing date via terminal until I turned off WiFi! Did that step after a very frustrating 7 hours and countless restarts and voila!! Did it first time.

This tip is probably in this thread somewhere but it wasn’t until I realised the date and time were being reset to Pacific time that it must have been the internet doing something! 🙄

So remember guys and gals, turn off WiFi after terminal date and time revision.

Probably won’t work for all but might be a little less frustrating for others.

D.

Just change the date in terminal:

"date 010110152017"

Quit your terminal and hit install, that worked for me.

Charlee78 wrote:

Hi guys and gals!!

Been having a weird trouble lately. I've got a macbook pro 3.1 that was working alright but I bought a newer one so I took the SSD and did a swap between the 2. Problem is I wiped the hard drive that is now in my old Macbook before selling it and whatever I do I get this error:

Os x could not be installed on you computer. No packages were eligible for install.

What i did so far:

-I rebuilt another usb drive from a new El Capitan freshly downloaded from the App store.

-I formatted the hard drive, again.

-I re tried to install but still the same.

-I then held command+r and tried to install from there but I get the same issue.

-I then found a guide to adjust date and time but it was already correct.

-Reset SMC and PRAM and restarted the whole process.

-I tried to install on an external usb drive but still the same.

At this point I'm out of ideas...

Made an account to bump this since this saved my mac book air. It bricked when upgrading to Catalina and nothing worked. Safe Mode, Recovery, Internet Recovery, etc.

Setting the date to 2017 and re-installing El Capitan did the trick for me.

In the Terminal, someone says to use this : $ date -u 020100002016

But it fails if you use the dollar sign... just remove it and only type this : date -u 020100002016 (don't forget the white space each side of the -u )

Then hit ENTER and make sure you're not connect to the internet (disable WiFi) because the OS may reset the time automatically. QUIT the Terminal and the installer will bring you back to the INSTALL window... just hit the button RESTART and everything should be fine.

After downloading the update.

Disable wireless

Unplugged my router ( wireless will be enabled when the mac restarts )

Changed the date and time from the terminal window

> date 0101124517

Completed the restart.

This resolved the issue for me

Thanks guys.... I literally wasted like 2 hours on chat with the Apple help desk last night trying to figure this out. And was about to buy a new HDD hoping it would be fixed.... thanks for this tip to save me all the trouble.