{"id":1833,"date":"2013-10-30T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T10:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2023-12-30T15:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T15:41:04","slug":"upgrading-macos-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/upgrading-macos-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading MacOS X"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And on to 10.9<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a rumour that it was best to stop at 10.8, Mountain Lion but by the time I got round to it this wasn&#8217;t an option. The Appstore only permitted an upgrade to <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/mavericks\/\">Mavericks<\/a>; is this a cat?\u00a0 The Appstore upgrade works fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now onto Macports which is a pain, and I document on <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/macports\/\">my Macports page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Filevault is a constraint as well. You&#8217;ll need a better answer than I used if any of your pre 10.8 users had Filevault encrypted home directories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">10.5 to 10.6<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all read this, <a title=\"at lifehacker\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170506163153\/http:\/\/lifehacker.com:80\/5348150\/how-to-upgrade-from-leopard-to-snow-leopard\">How to upgrade from leopard to snow leopard<\/a>. See also <a title=\"on this wiki\" href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/mac-os-about-upgrades\/\">Mac OS about upgrades<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get an external disk and make a time machine backup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Install the OS from the disk, this seems pretty non-disruptive, all the Mac Apps seem to be working. <em>Maybe we can get iMail to work<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Run a check for updates and install the new updates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upgrade Firefox, Thunderbird &amp; Adium using their screen interfaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>install Xcode from the disk and run check for updates. This is needed for macports.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Next work on Macports &amp; the GUI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/davelevy?query=%23macos\">my recent MacOS bookmarks<\/a> on diigo, originally on delicious<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And on to 10.9 There was a rumour that it was best to stop at 10.8, Mountain Lion but by the time I got round to it this wasn&#8217;t an option. The Appstore only permitted an upgrade to Mavericks; is this a cat?\u00a0 The Appstore upgrade works fine. And now onto Macports which is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[150,3],"tags":[587,1184,75,152,601,588,920,911,151],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macos-technology","category-technology","tag-10-6","tag-deprecated","tag-macos","tag-macport","tag-mavericks","tag-snow-leopard","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-upgrade"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mavericks-rom-imore.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9966,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/9966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}