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Why won't Office 2011 install on Snow Leopard?
I'm trying to install Office on my mother-in-law's MacBook. The installer fails every time with:
12/28/12 12:26:42 PM installd[1798] PackageKit: Install Failed: PKG: pre-install scripts for ...
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Deploy Software On Macs Connected to Active Directory?
We have about 50 Macs connected to our Windows Active Directory server and they work ok, they are bound up just fine using the built in functionality.
However, the time has come, we need to install a ...
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Installing wine with homebrew
So, I am running a bit of a different install. Here's the background:
I have installed wine before with MacPorts.
Later, I decided to install homebrew.
Then, wine didn't work so I tried brew install ...
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How can I properly install constantly updated apps(without in app update)?
How do I properly re-install an app that is constantly being updated(textmate on github) without losing my preferences. Since textmate moved to github, I don't see an in app update mechanism anymore.
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How can I mount partition disk0s4 that became inaccessible after a clean installation of Mountain Lion?
The hard drive on my MacBook Pro has two partitions. One with the OS and the other with data.
Yesterday, from a USB boot drive, I performed a clean installation of Mountain Lion to the OS drive. I ...
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Best practice for installing applications for multiple users?
I have a MBP with Lion (10.7.3) on it and there are two user accounts on it, I use them to seperate work and private stuff, but when I install apps, I generally want to use/upgrade/remove them using ...
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Adding a new directory to the PATH environment variable?
I'm trying to install this library called phantomjs.
The instructions include this line:
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/BuildInstructions
For convenience, copy the executable
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When I buy a Mac, does it come with reinstallation media?
Can I format my Mac? If I had one, would a full OS installation media be provided? Or at least an OEM version of it? If not, how much it costs to get one of these?
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I cannot install the Tiled Map Editor on Mac OS X 10.6.8
I am attempting to install Tiled Map Editor, a cross-platform open-source application that uses the QT application framework. It is used in game design.
When I attempt to install it, I get this error ...
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How can I clone my Lion-pre-installed drive to a new smaller hard drive?
I got a new MBP with Lion installed (as detailed here: How can I install an SSD on my new Lion MBP w/out install disks?), and I want to clone the drive (including the Lion install partition) to my new ...
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How to install TermKit on Mac? [closed]
https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
command:
git clone https://github.com/unconed/TermKit.git --recursive
Prompt:
fatal: https://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO.git/info/refs not found: did you ...
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Is there a way I can share a disk image as a remote DVD drive?
I would like to upgrade one of my laptops to Snow Leopard but the DVD drive doesn't work.
So can I share a disk image to use it with Remote Mac OS X Install tool?
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How can I open a .pkg file manually?
Some applications come in .pkg files, and ask for you administrator password, even if all they do is copy the binary to /Applications.
I like to have my applications in ~/Applications, and I do not ...
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Why do I have to drag my new apps into the application folder?
I'm a new Mac user and I've been installing a few different apps for different things. A lot of these use .dmg files.
Why exactly do they all expect me to drag the icon into the application folder? ...
