Rosetta 2 installation on M1 MBP fails
Question
I'm trying to install rosetta 2 via command line, using this command:
/usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta
Source: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/installing-rosetta-2-on-apple-silicon-macs/
The problem:
I'm receiving this error:
softwareupdate[981:12251] Package Authoring Error: 001-79711: Package reference com.apple.pkg.RosettaUpdateAuto is missing installKBytes attribute
The question: How can I get rid of this error and install rosetta 2 properly?
Solution
Don't know about the error message but the command also reports Install of Rosetta 2 finished successfully
. So to check whether Rosetta actually got installed
- Install an "old" application not recompiled for M1 yet (if you don't have one, any free application from the Store which hasn't been updated since May 2020 will do)
- Run it to see if it works.
You can then also check in Activity Monitor by enabling the "Architecture" column there. If any process shows as"Intel", Rosetta is installed
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