GarageBand Software Instrument / Apple Loop Installation snafu

semidriven wrote:

Running GarageBand '11 version 6.0.5 (428.5)

macOS High Sierra 10.13.6

I'm unable to download & install the complete set of GarageBand's Software Instrument & Apple Loops.

Here's the error message:

An error has occurred while running scripts from the package "GarageBandExtraContent.pkg".(112)

Apparently the content has been downloaded but the installation stalls on the script error.

Just the other day I was testing if GB'11 still downloads and stumbled upon those errors, too.

The security certificate for the built-in installer of GB'11 is expired, hence the error. The actual *.pkg can be installed manually though, using the regular MacOS installer.

How can I successfully install the update?

Download it directly from

http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/43/39/061-5890/y2FxthySsyd2PSt3zfZ4mz3X kbqdGZPDZc/GarageBandExtraContent.tar

Expand the TAR archive until you get the GarageBandExtraContent.pkg file.

Control-click on the package and select Open.

Confirm the "unidentified developer" warning that you want to open the package.

Install.

Alternatively, you can locate the already downloaded but failed GarageBandExtraContent.pkg if you open the Console.app and search the system.log for "GarageBandExtraContent.pkg". The download location should be somewhere in the path /var/folders/_random_characters/_random_characters/com.apple.GarageBand/…

Hm, just noticed that the aforementioned link is likely the "extra content" for GarageBand 5. But it should work nonetheless.

Otherwise use the Console.app hint for the latest extra content package.

That package is from 2009 when developers weren't "identified" yet, including Apple.