{"id":10062,"date":"2020-12-03T15:36:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/?p=10062"},"modified":"2022-10-25T19:37:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T00:37:52","slug":"how-to-fix-os-x-could-not-be-installed-in-your-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/how-to-fix-os-x-could-not-be-installed-in-your-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix &#8220;OS X could not be installed in your computer&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/osx-error.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10063\" src=\"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/osx-error-300x238.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/osx-error-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/osx-error-600x476.png 600w, https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/osx-error.png 359w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I recently had an old 2008 iMac and tried reloading the OS where I was constantly running into this error message: &#8220;OS X could not be installed in your computer. No packages were eligible to be installed&#8217;. I was eventually able to fix the issue by manually setting the date to an older one just for the installation. To change the date, I had to do the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>While in the OS X Installer, choose <b>Utilities<\/b> &gt; <b>Terminal<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Enter date <code>020101012016<\/code>\u00a0and press <b>Enter<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Exit Terminal and reboot to retry the installation and that did the trick.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about Microsoft Office? Check out the tutorials from the &#8220;Free Tutorials&#8221; link at the top menu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n[wysija_form id=&#8221;1&#8243;]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n[give_form id=&#8221;7819&#8243;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had an old 2008 iMac and tried reloading the OS where I was constantly running into this error message: &#8220;OS X could not be installed in your computer. No packages were eligible to be installed&#8217;. I was eventually able to fix the issue by manually setting the date to an older one just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,4,7],"tags":[298,296,297],"class_list":["post-10062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-2","category-malesuada","category-design-2","category-health","tag-os-x-could-not-be-installed","tag-os-x-error","tag-os-x-reinstall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaceli.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}