Not able to install Logic on mac with OSX. 10.8.2. Error message: Logic Studio.mpkg cannot be opened as the power pc programs are no longer supported. I have logic studio 8 software purchased in 2007 and upgraded with logic studio 9 (purchased in 2009)

You don't need to install your Logic 8 package.

Just install Logic 9 and all the additional content that comes with the Logic 9/Logic Studio 2 upgrade DVD set which will then ask you for your Logic 8 Serial and then your Logic 9 Upgrade Serial to activate it.

Next go to Software Updates and update Logic as Logic 9.0.0 does not work with Mountain Lion..

Now run Logic Pro and you are up and running!

The upgrade package for Logic Studio 2 has a UB installer... I just had to use it to reinstall on a ML system here..

However, you cannot run Logic 9.0 app...... you have to update it first...

Now having said that, I believe there was a very early version of the full (and maybe the upgrade too) Logic Studio 2 that had a PPC installer but then Apple changed it...and it came with a UB installer instead... I could be wrong, but I seem to recall a few people commenting on this and having to contact Apple to get replacement DVD1s for the boxed set.

Was that what the difference was... between Logic Studio 2.0 and Logic Studio 2.1?

*shrug* Can't remember Pancenter...

You are right about 9.1.0 being when Logic 9 went Intel only.... Up to then L9 was UB... though without official support for PPC from Apple!

Mark,

No... Actually, given your updated description it sounds like one of your DVDs has an error/ fault

I would call Apple and ask for their assistance.. They might need to replace one of your DVDs.. ( Disc 2)

The alternative would be for you to try and make Disk Images of your DVDs using the Disk Utility, store them on a Hard Drive and try to install from them

For help doing this see;

http://www.macprovideo.com/hub/mac-osx/installing-large-applications-using-disk- images-in-mac-os-x

As for your questions...

Logic Studio 2 was the Boxed set of Logic that contained Logic Pro 9 (along with a set of other music related apps such as Mainstage etc)

A PPC installer only worked on PPC based Macs...

A UB (Universal Binary) installer worked on both Intel and PPC Macs..

Recently Logic became an Intel Only App with an Intel only Installer.

This is why you, given you have a PPC Mac.. can only install from the Boxed set of Logic Studio 2 (because it has a UB installer) and you can only update to 9.0.2 because after that version Logic become an Intel only program.

Hope that clarifies things?

Mark,

Sorry...

I completely lost the thread (I actually got confused between you and another poster on a another forum that was asking the same basic question) and somehow ended up thinking you were trying to install on a PPC Mac

My apologies and please ingnore those parts of my last post relating to the PPC Macs...

You have an Intel Mac and therefore Logic Studio 2 Boxed Upgrade set should install/run on your Mac without issue. As I said earlier.. you do not need to try and install from the original Logic Studio 1 /Logic 8 Boxed set...(It won't work anyhow because you have an Intel Mac and that version had a PPC installer) but just install from the Logic Studio 2 / Logic Pro 9 Upgrade Boxed setof DVDs instead...

Have you tried the "Make Disk Image" solution I gave earlier? That normnally works under such circumstances as what you are describing can happen when your DVD drive cannot read the DVDs correctly... I have had this situation myself where one drive read them okay and another failed to do so for whatever reason. Making and then installing from Disk images of those exact same disks resolved the issue for me...

You can try to reinstall directly from the DVDs of course though under some circumstances it may not allow you to reinstall Logic Pro itself if that part of the original installation attempt was successful... in which case you can also try this... (It's probably the easiest method if Logic 9 was already installed and present in your Apps Folder)

If the Logic Pro App is in your applications folder..

Run Software Updates to update Logic Pro to a version that will run under 10.8.2 (The initially installed version of Logic will not)

Run Logic

Go to the menu bar in Logic and select Logic Pro/Install Additional Content and select all content in there..

This content is basically exactly the same as what is stored on the remaining DVDs of the boxed set so you might not need to use the rest of the DVDs to install from but download it all instead from Apple Servers...

Great!

Of course you don't have any of the other content such as the Apple Lopps and additional Instrument Presets installed... because the installation from the DVDs was halted..but as I said, you can get those using the "Download Additional Content' menu item in Logic itself.. so no worries

Am I imagining this or weren't there early Logic 9 upgrades and/or standard packages that had PPC installers as well? I remember Logic 9 installed and ran on PPC machines up until Logic 9.02.

Right.. You have to run software updates now... to update that version of Logic to a later version that will run...