[OSX-Users] Re: Install iLife on Lion

[Luke Teacy]

Dong,

Speaking as someone who did this just last week:

- iLife licenses are separate and not distributed with Lion. Therefore, upgrading to Lion will *not* upgrade you automatically to iLife'11. Also I do not believe that the university has a site license for iLife, so if you want it, you will either have to buy it yourself, or persuade your budget holder to pay for it (unlikely?).

- I'm assuming the university does have a cite license for Microsoft Office for Mac and Lion, since both are available for download from the University.

- You can use the Lion ISO image from ECS to upgrade from Snow Leopard without doing a clean install, so you do not need to pay for this through the App Store.

- So far, I haven't had any problems running iLife on Lion, but I've only been using it now for a week.

Luke

On 15 Mar 2012, at 17:01, T Dong Huynh wrote:

> Many thanks, Jules. If I had upgraded from Snow Leopard, rather than fresh install Lion, would the iLife suite be upgraded to the '11 version as well?
> I think I could install iLife '09 from the original discs that came with my Macbook, as Luke suggested, but I also found reports of incompatibility on an Apple forum.
> 
> I'm quite reluctant to restore Snow Leopard, just to get the iLife back, since lots of software installation and customisations have happened since I upgraded. I might need to live it.
> 
> On a separate note, I'd like to understand about MacOS licenses on university machines. Do we have a site license that allow free upgrades from Snow Leopard (and, if so, how)? Or, when you suggested me to upgrade from Snow Leopard, I'll need to pay for a copy of Lion via the App Store?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> Dong.
> From: Julian Field <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Organization: University of Southampton
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:10:22 +0000
> To: "osx-users at ecs.soton.ac.uk" <osx-users at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Cc: Trung Dong Huynh <tdh at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [OSX-Users] Install iLife on Lion
> 
>> You should just upgrade to Lion, not do a fresh install. Suggest you restore back to Snow Leopard and then just upgrade.
>> 
>> If you get really stuck (you do have a backup, don't you), I might be able to find a copy of iLife, but it's not the same version as the one you already have so you should have to pay for it again.
>> 
>> On 15/03/2012 15:02, T Dong Huynh wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>>  
>>> I’ve got my Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard and iLife pre-installed. I then installed a fresh copy of Lion downloaded from the ECS software distribution server.
>>> The problem is iLife is not included with Lion. How can I obtain iLife and re-install it on my machine from ECS?
>>> Cheers,
>>>  
>>> Dong.
>>> --
>>> Dr T Dong Huynh
>>> Research Fellow
>>>  
>>> Web and Internet Science Research Group         Tel: +44 (0) 23 8059 3270
>>> School of Electronics and Computer Science      Fax: +44 (0) 23 8059 2865
>>> University of Southampton                       Eml: tdh at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>> Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
>>>  
>> 
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>> --  
>> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk

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