“No Software”
After my recent painful experience of doing a fresh install of Leopard, I’m going through the paces of reinstalling and reactivating my software. I’d already gotten AppZapper, Quicktime Pro and Final Cut Studio 2 reinstalled with no hitch whatsoever. Now it was time for iWork. After popping in the install DVD and clicking through the first couple of screens, I was presented with this error message:
That’s right – “The installer could not install the software because there was no software found to install.”
Am I missing something? As I said before – I did a brand new install of Leopard and wiped everything. There’s no reference to iWork anywhere in my system, let alone the actual software. I had split the software with a buddy who had installed it (with some minor issues – he actually had to put in the key after a reboot to get it to work correctly) successfully just minutes before my attempt. And even after a couple of ejections and a reboot, the message remains. I’m not incredibly peeved about this, just baffled by the error message. I can’t really think of an instance where this wording would make sense. I would think if there was an issue with the install disk or if the software already existed, it would say as much. But this just looks like it fell out of Windows.
So as I scratch my head, I’m curious – are there any other iWork users out there with a similar issue?
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Did Leopard install a 30 day trial of iWork? Maybe the iWork DVD saw that and figured it didn’t need to install iWork over that?
Could the install disc have a scratch? It may be reporting the wrong error…
Try downloading and installing the trial from Apple’s website, its the same one on the DVD that worked for me.
I had absolutely no problems witth my iWork ’08 install. Microsoft Office 2004 however doesn’t want to install. Weird.
Nabbing the trial off the site worked perfectly. Good call!
I had the same issue when doing a software update of FCP and the leopard update. I went to the downloads page for FCP and got the update from there and that worked but I am still unable to update leopard to 10.5.1.
I just had the same thing happen in Tiger yesterday with the new iPhoto update.
I am not sure what the above means, but I bet it has something to do with the problem. Installing iWork on more than one computer violates the license and, unlike iLife or the Mac OS, iWork is a serialized product that checks such things when installed.
I just installed iWork ’08 from cd without any problems on Leopard (clean install) with update 10.5.1
I had this problem with iLife ’08. Never got around to re-installing it.