[OSX-Users] Re: Install iLife on Lion

[Jules Field]

On 15/03/2012 17:12, Luke Teacy wrote:
> 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?).
Correct, we do not have a site licence for iLife.
>
> - 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.
Correct, we have site licences for both. They are both available from 
the ECS software server at 
cifs://software.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software/images/apple.
>
> - 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.
Upgrade to Lion by running the "Install Mac OS X Lion" app. Using the 
ISO image is not a supported method of upgrading, though you should find 
it works. It's much more work, too.


Jules

-- 
sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk