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  • Apple 10.6.5 update Failure (Fix)

    Posted on by Craig Szymanski

    I have been pulling my hair out trying to get 10.6.5 to install on a particular macbook and kept getting this error with software udpate…
    “An Installation error occurred.”
    …and then I would have to reboot.

    or this one with the Full Combo update package…
    “The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.”

    The fix was to set the max file limit to 10000. This appears to have be adjusted by the Smart Board software that is installed on the laptop. This is all I had to run in the terminal…

    sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=10000
    sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=10000

    The second one actually showed a schange from 2000 to 10000.
    I re-ran the Combo Update and had no problems with the install.

    I gleaned this from reading a few thread on Apple Support and actually found the fix here…
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2468522&tstart=0

    So, if you have “Smart” software installed and cannot install this update this might help.

     


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  • Deploy Adobe Flash 10.1x with ARD

    Posted on by Craig Szymanski

    For some reason unbeknownst to myself Adobe decided to stop releasing flash player for Macintosh as a package sometime this summer. This is very inconvenient when trying to deploy the player on multiple machines in order to push patches to security holes in their software. With a little poking around I found that the package is in the download you just need to extract it. To do so…

    1. Download the player from Adobe’s site
    2. CTRL-Click on the file and choose show package contents
    3. Open the “Contents” folder and then the “Resources” folder. Inside you will see a files called “Adobe Flash Player.pkg”
    4. Drag/Drop or copy that package somewhere and use that to deploy the player with Apple Remote Desktop

     


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