Wi-Fi connection for printers with a touchscreen control panel: Open the Setup, Network, or Wireless settings menu, select Wireless Setup Wizard, and then follow the instructions to select the network name and enter the password. I hope this works for you before Apple sunsets remote administration completely.Connect the printer to the same network that the Mac is connected to, or use a direct USB connection. However, when running this command, it only installed the targeted update and left the BigSur update uninstalled.Īpple has clearly broken something in the tool, and it seems with the impending MDM restrictions and deprecation in macOS Big Sur, has no intention of fixing this. why was it necessary to use the -a flag? That's expressly saved for installing all available updates. Then I pull out the title from the other info 'this is the actual Title of the update, not the label': To get this, I run softwareupdate -l | grep Title./usr/sbin/softwareupdate proper shell pathing should void the need to add the path, but multiple forums suggested otherwise.sudo I threw this in even though I'm running as system.

Sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate -ia 'macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update' Breakdown of CLI This is the line that eventually worked for me: No amount of the following made a difference on their own. I ran into the same problems as OP but was forced to modify my solution from accepted answer. So then how is the softwareupdate tool supposed to be used ?Īs of Sept 2021, when attempting an upgrade to Catalina 10.15.7. $/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -i 'macOS Catalina 10.15.7' MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update: No such update I also tried some variants: (python39) 10:25:21/~ $/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -i 'macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update' MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update-: No such update However that does not work: $/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -i 'macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update-' So the analogous value here would be macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update. Title: macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update, Version:, Size: 5099042K, Recommended: YES, Action: restart,īut what is the actual label? According to this resource it is the exact wording: Software Update found the following new or updated software: Let's see what updates are available: $/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -l I am trying to install a macOS update from the command line.

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