Please watch version 2 of this video here: the 'install failed' and 'No packages were eligible for install'.
- No packages were eligible for install. This is what it looks like in the installer. Upon seeing this I went 'HUH?' Because the installation was from a thumb drive I'd used many times to install Mac OS X (El Capitan) successfully. The above image came from an attempt to install El Capitan. I just got the following message.
- Nov 12, 2019 I was repeatedly getting 'Could Not Be Installed on your computer no packages were eligible for install' using both the internet el capitan install and this USB install. Thank you MIKX using terminal date just got me going!!
- Oct 01, 2015 This entry was posted in Troubleshooting and tagged 10.11, El Capitan, OS X, OS X 10.11 on October 1, 2015 by Topher Kessler. Post navigation ← Reasons to both install and avoid OS X 10.11 El Capitan Fix package managers not working after installing El Capitan →.
El capitan no packages were eligible for install. Posted by 22 days ago. El capitan no packages were eligible for install. Im in recovery mode and i keep getting the same popup despite going to terminal and typing 'date ' which failed then 'date ' which also failed.
; Date: 2016-10-16 15:41 - Problem: I tried to install El Capitan, but it gives me error messages. If you really want to like El.
- The El Capitan installer has essentially bricked my iMac. And since I can't mount the filesystem, I can no longer create a backup from it. My drive is a Seagate 2TB SSHD hybrid that I installed in April 2014 and is still under warranty.
- Once you’ve done that, here’s how to install, reinstall, or upgrade to El Capitan, step by step: Boot from your Recovery HD partition by restarting your Mac while holding down the Command+R keys. The OS X Utilities window appears. Select Reinstall OS X, and click Continue. The OS X El Capitan splash screen appears.
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A key step for upgrading the disk on a MacBook Pro is to install a new operating system on the new drive, and then use Migration Assistant to copy over the old data. Depending on how you went about the work, installing Mac OS X on the new system may give you a message: OS X could not be installed on your computer. No packages were eligible for install.
This is what it looks like in the installer. Upon seeing this I went 'HUH?' because the installation was from a thumb drive I'd used many times to install Mac OS X (El Capitan) successfully.
The above image came from an attempt to install El Capitan. I just got the following message, macOS could not be installed on your computer, while trying to install macOS High Sierra.
In both cases there was the same cause. In the El Capitan case, as I say in the next paragraph, the hardware clock had reset to zero because it did not have a battery pack. In the High Sierra case, I had performed a hardware reset of the computer in an attempt to fix a bootup problem. I had found advice to disconnect the battery, the power supply, then hold down the power key for a few moments. In both cases the hardware clock had been reset to zero, and macOS refused to boot.
After some yahoogling (duckduckgoing) I came across a simple solution. This particular computer had been running with no battery, and therefore the hardware clock was reset to zero, and Mac OS X had a test against that condition.
We've discussed elsewhere the process to install Mac OS X onto a computer, and transfer information from an old drive. It's during that process when the above message appears. A couple steps prior is where you can take action to correct the problem.
At this step, click on Terminal ..
Then change the operating system date.
When running this particular Terminal session, you are ROOT meaning you can change anything on the computer. Normally we type 'date' at the command line just to find out the current day/month/year/time. But, the date command can be used to change the time registered in the system clock.
As I said above, for this particular computer the system clock had been reset to zero because the battery pack had been changed. In fact, the computer had run without a battery for many months because the old battery had gone bad.
As you see on the screen, the date had been January 1, 2001. I then changed the system date to the current time as of the writing of this posting.
To understand the second command, go to a terminal window and type 'man date'.
In the synopsis section you'll see this as an option for the 'date' command:
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That's a little obtuse, but further down the manpage is this key: Error failed building wheel for mysqlclient macos.
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In other words, the date code for this purpose is month-day-hour-minutes-year .. hence, that's what I entered and it changed the system date to match.
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Afterward I closed the Terminal window and was able to successfully install Mac OS X on the computer.
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Hi all,
I have been trying to do a clean install of El Capitan on a friend's MacBook Pro late 2011. He has already upgraded but he is curious to see how the process goes with speech as this is his first time on Mac. We started by Command+R and Power Key and waited for sometime until the first screen appears. I remember there were five options, one is the Disk Utility. We chose this and moved to the next page to erase data on the internal HD. The usual table of HD's attached to the Mac appear and we selected the one El Capitan is installed on. There has been no erase button, just a page with details about the selected HD. In the Toolbar we found the Erase button and by selecting this we got the message that it can not be erased. I googled for that and found that there are those who faced the same problem and there has been no solution except making sure that there is nothing running while trying to do the clean installation. Could it be VO that prevents us from initialising the installation?? To make sure that we were not doing it the wrong way, I tried with my own Mac Air 2015 and that was different as the erase button in my case was already dimmed. Again, I googled for this and the same recommendation was there to insist on having no processes are to be running while trying to wipe data off on HD. Anyone has suggestion, please?
Thanks.