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

Hi, when from terminal i wrote command softwareupdate --install-rosetta,

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

How i can resolve this issue?


MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on Oct 26, 2021 6:06 AM

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Posted on Oct 26, 2021 6:23 AM

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


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Oct 26, 2021 6:23 AM in response to peppe0703

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


Oct 26, 2021 6:33 AM in response to peppe0703

peppe0703 wrote:

Last login: Tue Oct 26 15:13:18 on ttys000
****@ 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...


Dec 10, 2021 11:57 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

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.

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