[OSX-Users] Re: Install iLife on Lion

[Jules Field]

Dong,

On 15/03/2012 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?
No. iLife is not part of the operating system, it is an "optional 
install" that ships free on pretty much all Macs when you purchase them. 
You can find the installers on the 2nd DVD that came with your Mac.
> 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 have iPhoto 9 installed on a Mac running Lion, appears to work okay. 
I'm not sure if iPhoto 9 corresponds to iLife '09 or not, sorry. Each 
package has its own version number.
>
> 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.
In which case, as Hugh Davis has suggested, just buy the bits of iLife 
you need from the App Store. You can purchase that on your own Visa card 
and claim it back from the University, provided you have an account code 
to charge it to. The cost of the iLife components you actually use is 
negligible compared to the cost of your time messing around trying to 
get an old version working.

>
> 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?
We have a site licence for Mac OS X. Both upgrades and fresh installs.
On the ECS software server at
     cifs://software.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software
in the subdirectory
     images/apple
you will find the latest release of Lion (10.7.3), which is just 
distributed as an app (which I probably zipped up for ease). Copy that 
onto your Mac, double-click on the zip file to unpack it. Drag the app 
into your /Applications folder and run it. It will do a full 
non-destructive upgrade of your system to Lion, leaving all your 
settings and applications and files intact.

Simple as that.

Do *not* attempt to upgrade by using ISO images or any route like that.
Just run the "Install Mac OS X Lion" app from a fully-patched copy of 
Snow Leopard.

Jules.


> Dong.
> From: Julian Field <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:osx-users at ecs.soton.ac.uk>" 
> <osx-users at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:osx-users at ecs.soton.ac.uk>>
> Cc: Trung Dong Huynh <tdh at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto: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 <mailto:tdh at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>>
>>     Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
>>
>
>
>     -- 
>     sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>

Jules

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sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk

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