cannot install anything that needs a restart to finish the install

Hi,

I have a 13-inch M1 2020, 16GB memory, 256 GB storage (macOS Big Sur Version 11.5)

I have been trying to install a webcam utility (both Cannon and Sony) ,from the official sites and both utilities are made for the M1, for the past month and it just doesn't work. It installs normally until it asks to restart, when it starts up again after the restart it's like nothing happened, no error or anything. It like i restarted the system normally without an install.

If anyone can help me i would appreciate it.

I also tried reinstalling macOS and that did not help

I checked the installer log and i get the bellow;


Jul 26 07:04:57 Mivans-MacBook-Pro Installer[1409]: Package Authoring Error: <background_scaling> has an unsupported MIME type: X-NSObject/NSNumber

Jul 26 07:04:57 Mivans-MacBook-Pro Installer[1409]: Package Authoring Error: <background_alignment> has an unsupported MIME type: X-NSObject/NSNumber

Jul 26 07:04:57 Mivans-MacBook-Pro Installer[1409]: Package Authoring Error: <layout-direction> has an unsupported MIME type: X-NSObject/NSNumber

Jul 26 07:04:57 Mivans-MacBook-Pro Installer[1409]: Failed to load specified background image


you help is much appreciated

thank you

Posted on Jul 25, 2021 9:07 PM

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Jul 25, 2021 10:59 PM in response to mivanM

Is this you???


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See this ^ following replies...


Okay, so let's just do what we can to get the installer to succeed.

Open Terminal and Run:

sudo mkdir -p /private/tmp

sudo mkdir -p /private/var

sudo mkdir -p /private/etc


Then try launching the installer again.

Packages may start working against simply by doing this; but you do not want to live with this hack. Just do this so that you can use the installer again.

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