Still no Catalina download for me...

[liquidnonsense]

Is anybody else still seeing "Your Mac is up to date" with Mojave, even with a fully functional Apple Developer Seed Profile? I have been itching to try it but still no luck. Has the rollout been particularly slow, or am I missing something? Thanks.

 

[casperes1996]

There's more than one developer seed program. You may be enrolled in the Mojave Updates program, not the Catalina progra. As soon as I enrolled in the right program it showed up.
[doublepost=1559840151][/doublepost]And SwiftUI is really bloody awesome - as is Xcode 11

 

[mikecwest]

Try re-installing your beta profile issued to you for Catalina.

 

[liquidnonsense]

Try re-installing your beta profile issued to you for Catalina.

Wow, that did it! Can't believe it was that simple.

 

[mikecwest]

Wow, that did it! Can't believe it was that simple.

I am happy to provide my simple, non-expert solutions. A re-install of "what ever is wrong" is very often a good troubleshooting step.

 

[FarmerBob]

I got eMails inviting me to "reapply/join" the "Catalina" Beta Programs for macOS and tvOS. As I went through the steps I got new "activation" number, although they activated themselves. But it was a bit of a "Start Over" kinda thing . . .

 

[mikecwest]

I got eMails inviting me to "reapply/join" the "Catalina" Beta Programs for macOS and tvOS. As I went through the steps I got new "activation" number, although they activated themselves. But it was a bit of a "Start Over" kinda thing . . .

An activation number for Catalina? I never heard of an Activation number for Mac OS, OSX, Mac OS, System Software, Apple IIGS OS, or Apple OS....?

 

[casperes1996]

An activation number for Catalina? I never heard of an Activation number for Mac OS, OSX, Mac OS, System Software, Apple IIGS OS, or Apple OS....?

appleseed.apple.com has an "activation number" for joining the beta program. Think that's what he/she meant

 

[bogdanw]

How to get Catalina, the nerd's way
(Warning! "Don't risk your Mac or its data just to try out the macOS Catalina beta")
- check your update catalog with

sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL

Default catalog, regular updates, should return

The domain/default pair of (/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate, CatalogURL) does not exist

- set the CatalogURL for 10.15 Beta

sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --set-catalog https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.15seed-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz

- create /Users/Shared/.SeedEnrollment.plist with this content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>SeedProgram</key>
    <string>DeveloperSeed</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Now you should get


- To disable beta

sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog

The result should be

Changed catalog to Apple production

Inspired by https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/catalogurl-for-macos-10-13-high-sierra/

 

[casperes1996]

How to get Catalina, the nerd's way
(Warning! "Don't risk your Mac or its data just to try out the macOS Catalina beta")
- check your update catalog with

sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL

Default catalog, regular updates, should return

- set the CatalogURL for 10.15 Beta

sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --set-catalog https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.15seed-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz

- create /Users/Shared/.SeedEnrollment.plist with this content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>SeedProgram</key>
    <string>DeveloperSeed</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Now you should get
View attachment 843085

- To disable beta

sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog

The result should be

Inspired by https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/catalogurl-for-macos-10-13-high-sierra/

I mean, this is a great insight into the software-updater tool's way of checking beta enrolment and such... But I think I'll just stick to downloading the enrolment profile off Apple.

 

[bogdanw]

I mean, this is a great insight into the software-updater tool's way of checking beta enrolment and such... But I think I'll just stick to downloading the enrolment profile off Apple.

"The Apple Developer Program annual fee is 99 USD"
Copy-pasting in Terminal is free ;-)

 

[casperes1996]

"The Apple Developer Program annual fee is 99 USD"
Copy-pasting in Terminal is free ;-)

Well there is that, yes

 

[bogdanw]

MacOS Catalina Public Beta
- set the CatalogURL for 10.15 Public Beta

sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --set-catalog https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.15beta-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz

- create /Users/Shared/.SeedEnrollment.plist with this content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>SeedProgram</key>
    <string>PublicSeed</string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

[swizzletrain]

MacOS Catalina Public Beta
- set the CatalogURL for 10.15 Public Beta

sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --set-catalog https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.15beta-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz

- create /Users/Shared/.SeedEnrollment.plist with this content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>SeedProgram</key>
    <string>PublicSeed</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Thanks. Tried this but still not liking it at all, still showing that I'm 'up to date'. Any ideas of anything else to try?

 

[tracer1]

Try re-installing your beta profile issued to you for Catalina.

Haven't figured out how to do this yet. Still get "Your Mac is up to date" with Mojave also.

 

[bogdanw]

Haven't figured out how to do this yet. Still get "Your Mac is up to date" with Mojave also.

Unenroll Your Devices to Stop Receiving Public Betas https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/unenroll
or sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog and delete /Users/Shared/.SeedEnrollment.plist
or Restore default from this script Easy beta enrollment for Catalina and Mojave (no Apple ID required) and enroll again.

 

[Its_Me]

Sorry to dig up and old thread, but i'm having this issue with installing BIG SUR. I've tried to reset the CatalogueURL by using this command in Terminal "sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog" but that hasn't helped. I still keep getting the same error...

Update not found
The requested version of macOS is not available.


Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!