Installing Rosetta 2 on this system is not supported Macbook Pro M1 Macos Monterey

peppe0703 wrote:

Hi, when from terminal i wrote command

softwareupdate --install-rosetta

ppear this text "Installing Rosetta 2 on this system is not supported ".

How i can resolve this issue?

If you have an M1 SoC Mac...

If you need to install Rosetta on your Mac - Apple Support

The command line, copy and paste:

/usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta

peppe0703 wrote:

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****@ MacBook-Pro-di-Giuseppe ~ % /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta

Installing Rosetta 2 on this system is not supported.

****@ MacBook-Pro-di-Giuseppe ~ % 

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For your M1 you can try —

sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

What software are you trying to run that is not Universal (?) Typically the macOS prompts for install...

Same problem here on an M1 mini and a 14 inch Macbook Pro. --agree-to-license helps nothing.

I talked to a guy on Slack who said he could install it as many times as he wanted with no errors. It just ran silently. So I think not. Besides that would not be a useful message if it fails because it's already installed. I actually think this may be tied to a Jamf policy blocking Monterey. I changed the policy, but it may not propagate as quickly as I expect. Or could be tied to the fact these computers report to Jamf as "unknown" processor and x86_64. But yet, they say Apple Silicon = true.

I AM the IT dept. Rosetta is not blocked.

Perhaps you cannot command Rosetta be installed, because it already IS installed.

So if you need to install Rosetta, and your Mac is Managed, you WILL need to ask your IT department to make it possible for Rosetta to be installed.