Installing El Capiton on an old Mac Book Pro today, I received the error:
- El Capitan No Packages Were Eligible For Install On Imac
- El Capitan No Packages Were Eligible For Install
- El Capitan Not Eligible For Install
- El Capitan No Packages Were Eligible For Install Big Sur
My problem is that my Mac starts up to the 'El Capitan' installer. After restarting several times, OS X is still on screen telling me that 'no packages were eligible for install'. Can someone help please, and can you bear in mind that I’m not technically minded so keep instruction in simple terms. Jun 24, 2020 El Capitan Desktop Guides Yosemite Desktop Support Yosemite Desktop Guides Mavericks Desktop Support Mavericks Desktop Guides. No packages were eligible for install: Target Drive for Install - SATA Drive. Sunilzlog; Feb 15, 2016; Replies 3 Views 5K. Today at 9:21 AM. Old rig, El Capitan working but only USB booting. I am trying to install the Public Beta version of El Capitan and after about 10-15 mins of trying to install, a message pops up that says 'no packages were eligible for install' and the installation fails. Here's what I've tried so far: Restarting with command + r: - I do not have a Time Machine backup. Are you reinstalling Apple Mac OS X in your old laptop but getting error 'OS X could not be installed on your computer' and message appear 'No packages were.
OS X could not be installed on your computer
No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
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.
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
Once the Date and time are configured you will be able to install OS X.
El Capitan No Packages Were Eligible For Install On Imac
Easy fix, for a ridiculous error!
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I used Utilities to erase the disk.
I reset NVRAM.
then tried to reinstall OSX El Capitan (Ctrl R)
Now the machine is useless…….
At startup I get the “Installing OSX” banner to install on the Mac HD.
Then after a while I get….
“OSX could not be installed on your computer. No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. Quit the install to restart your computer to try again”
I press restart, at which point the same loop starts again.
HELP!
I don't feel confident talking to Genius Bar and cannot find any email.