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und voila, die ersten Updates werden verteilt

Interessanterweise kriege ich jetzt iTunes 7.7.1 (anstatt V8), kann aber daran liegen dass ich iTunes eh nicht verwende und daher die Updates ab und an verschlafe.

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Mac OS X comes with an update service called Software Update.

Basicly its a nice feature which keep tracks on all Updates released by Apple Inc. for its software. This means it will cover the Operating System itself and the software shipped or offered by Apple.

Unfortunaly there is no real paket management like linux users love to have, but thats another story and this should not end in a rant

In some cases you want to ignore a specific update or an application from being updated so lets take a look how we can handle that with Mac OS X.

How to define an update to be ignored using Software Update:

You have to start Software Update and if the result list shows up, select the item you want to ignore. Navigate to Update in your menubar and select Ignore Update.

Well this is pretty easy, but maybe you selected the wrong update or just want to reset your ignore list whyever. It’s possible but not really good implemented from feature aspect … why ? Because you can only reset all Ignored Updates, not a specific one. Again a whyever….

How to reset Ignored Updates:

Start Software Update, navigate to Software Update in your menubar and select Reset Ignored Updates.

I would like to have a real paket management but that’s far away from reality, so we have to live with SoftwareUpdate how it is right now.

Personaly i would not work with ignoring updates in general as i prefer keeping my applications and operating system in touch with latest releases (which takes long enough with Mac OS X), but well if you need it ….do it =)

A final note for the command line lovers: Software Update is available as cli command too. You should start with a quick:

man softwareupdate

in Terminal.app, which will output something like that (10.5.4 here)

NAME
softwareupdate — system software update tool

SYNOPSIS
softwareupdate command [args ...]

DESCRIPTION
Software Update checks for new and updated versions of your software based on information about your
computer and current software.

Invoke softwareupdate by specifying a command followed by zero or more args.

The following modes are available:

-l | –list
List all available updates.

-d | –download

-i | –install
Each update specified by args is downloaded and unarchived, and also installed.   The
install flag requires root.   args can be one of the following:

item …  Ã‚  Ã‚   One or more update names.

-a | –all   All appropriate updates.

-r | –req   All required updates.

–ignore …
Manages the per-user list of ignored updates.

–reset-ignored
Clears the list of all ignored updates.

–schedule   Manages the per-user scheduler preferences.   args should be one of the following words:

on | off  Ã‚  Ã‚   Enable or disable automatic checking.

-h | –help
Print command usage.

I hope this short article helped.

Links:

• Wikipedia about Apple Software Update
• Apple Inc. about Software Update
• Apple Inc. about updating your software

10.5.3 is out

Lets see if it’s a step forward or even back :/

Links:

• About the Update
• Link to ComboUpdate

Today is command-line day and we want to start Apple’s Software Update function. At least i want so

1. Open Terminal.app
2. Enter:
   1. softwareupdate -i -a <- install all available updates OR
   2. softwareupdate -i -r <- install only recommended updates
3. Don