1. Mac Os X No Packages Were Eligible For Install El Capitan
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Apr 18, 2016 “No packages were eligible for install” is a message that appears when attempting to install OS X El Capitan on older macs. MacBooks are a very popular purchase in Melbourne and around Australia so it is important to understand the reasoning behind why this message appears. Simply put, if your Mac isn’t old enough to run the latest El Capitan operating system then it won’t install. “No packages were eligible for install” is a message that appears when attempting to install OS X El Capitan on older macs. MacBooks are a very popular purchase in Melbourne and around Australia so it is important to understand the reasoning behind why this message appears. The combo updater contains all the files necessary to install macOS on all Macs, whereas the version downloaded from the App Store only has the files for your specific Mac. It may be that the combo updater works, where the Mac App Store version doesn’t. Install in Recovery Mode. This is the last resort if nothing else works.

Installing El Capiton on an old Mac Book Pro today, I received the error:

OS X could not be installed on your computer

No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.

Mac Os X No Packages Were Eligible For Install El Capitan

Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.

I checked Apple’s support Matrix (it is a very old macbook pro) at https://support.apple.com/kb/SP728?locale=en_GB and it was listed as supported.

After lots of Googling and investigation, I discovered that the date and time were not set to current, the macbook thought it was year 2000.

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You can easily reset the time and date by following the steps below:

• Click Utilities on the menu bar
• Select Terminal
• Type date
• Confirm the date is wrong
• Type date 062112422016 (example: June 21st 12:42 2016)
• Exit terminal
• Click Restart

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Once the Date and time are configured you will be able to install OS X.

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Mac Os X No Packages Were Eligible For Install

Easy fix, for a ridiculous error!