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Still no Catalina download for me...

liquidnonsense

liquidnonsense

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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.

Screen Shot 2019-06-06 at 11.17.51 AM.jpg
 
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
 
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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 . . .
 
FarmerBob said:
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 . . .
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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....?
 
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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
Code: 
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
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- set the CatalogURL for 10.15 Beta
Code: 
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
Code: 
<?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
cata.jpg

- To disable beta
Code: 
sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog
The result should be
Changed catalog to Apple production
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Inspired by https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/catalogurl-for-macos-10-13-high-sierra/
 
bogdanw said:
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
Code: 
sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL
Default catalog, regular updates, should return

- set the CatalogURL for 10.15 Beta
Code: 
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
Code: 
<?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
Code: 
sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog
The result should be

Inspired by https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/catalogurl-for-macos-10-13-high-sierra/
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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.
 
MacOS Catalina Public Beta
- set the CatalogURL for 10.15 Public Beta
Code: 
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
Code: 
<?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>
 
bogdanw said:
MacOS Catalina Public Beta
- set the CatalogURL for 10.15 Public Beta
Code: 
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
Code: 
<?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>
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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?
 
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!
 
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