When I installed Lion I received this message when trying to install..helpThe software could not be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading.
Using secondry click choose "Show Package Contents" open "Contents" folder and then go to "Shared support" and open "Install ESD.dmg" double click on Install Mac OS X Lion and thats it, its will not shows you that error again. It really works.
I am pretty sure it is not because the software you downloaded is corrupted. I have the lion installer and it passes the checksum, but I still ran into the same problem. Finally I found out a solution:
1. Open the content of the Lion installer (right click on the installer and select Show Package Contents).
2. Navigate into a sub-directory where you can find two .dmg file in it. One .dmg file is LionGAInstallESD.dmg. Double click to open it.
3. You will find another Install OS X Lion application in it. Double click and run it.
4. The installer will download something from the Internet and start to install Lion.
I was in your same situation with 14 downloads and 14 attempts.
You have to make sure that your Mac is booting into 64 bit mode. You can make sure of this by going into System Preferences and scrolling down to 'Software' and making sure that you are booding with 64 bit Kexts.
If not, restart while holding the 6 and 4 keys down until you see the spinning gear wheel and try installng again.
BUT, what I also did was to go into Applications, click on the Lion installer, Get Info, and give yourself custom priviliges to Read And Write.
I did this simultaneously, and I don't know what function did it, but it worked for me, with no further downloads of the installer.
Good luck!
That's it!
Hello All,
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions.
Finally I managed to both download and install Lion on the MBP of a friend. Here are the details:
Anyway, happy ending and I have a happy friend to whom I gave "the Lion" as a gift 🙂
Cheers all,
Peter
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I have the sme issue as well. The download appeared to complete, The installer started up and when I attempted to proceed it displayed the error message. Now the App Store thinks Lion is installed and I cant see how I can even download Lion again.
Thanks at least this got me downloading again. Now I wait another 5 hours and will have used up 8G of my 12Gb monthly data.
It would be really useful if there was an alternative to having to download. This way it costs me an extra $80 for the downloads.
Not everybody in the world is on high badwidth and unlimited data connections.
I called up to Apple Store, asking if I pay but install Lion right away using Apple facilities/ server. (downing 3GB thru broadband is not pleasant experience for most places)
Well, they don't entertain such installment assistance at this moment.
But I was told that USB thumb installation drive is preparing, though no schedule is given.
Hello all,
I did what meraTechStuff suggested. Namely to delete and re-download Lion, but at 12 hours+ per download, it's a hefty price to pay for a download that at the end doesn't work.
So, on my side, twice downloaded, twice "The software could not be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading."
The closest Mac Store is hours driving away from where I am.
Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance,
Peter
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My suggestion is asking Apple for a refund and just don't use it. At some point they will have it available on disc in the store. You can buy it at that time. Maybe the development of the product is finished by then.
I had this same problem, all you have to do is search for the lion installer file in finder, right click it and select get info, deselect open in 32 bit mode under the general tab, and than double click the installers and it should work now.
Hi there, I had the same issue happen to me trying to download and install Lion. I had to download it 4 times and all failed with the same error message. Finally, I figured I was making the download from behind my organization's proxy, so I turned that off and downloaded the file one last time (the fifth), and sure enough, I could tell right from the start of the download process that this time it was gonna be different judging by the the blue progress line on Lion's icon in the dock, this line had been stretched to the length of the entire monitor on the previous, corrupted downloads, buf with this one it was confined to the icon's length, the way it should appear. The dowwnload completed and I installed Lion successfully. This might shed more light on the issue with some of you out there experiencing the same problem.
Adnan
A client's 27-inch Core i3 iMac (Mid-2010) with 10.6.8 had this error come up when upgrading to Lion. After a lot of troubleshooting, I narrowed it down to a bad stick of RAM. After I removed the bad stick, the install ran fine. I suggest downloading Applejack with Memtest and running Memtest in single-user mode. It will let you know if you have some bad RAM.
Applejack download:
I didn't try it like iMas119, but that may be easier than what I did. If that doesn't work for you, try this:
After my second download, I refused to download it again. I followed the instructions to create a Lion Install Disk in the article linked below. Worked perfect. Starts on the page 2, about halfway down.
http://www.maclife.com/article/features/essential_guide_os_x_lion?page=0,1
My problem was solved by replacing two memory I added after getting the iMac. It looks like you can run Mac OS with a bad RAM but the big file download is more demanding. Before you replace any RAM, you can use memory test program like (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15837/rember) to see if your installed RAM has issues.
The software could not be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading.
