

And thenĪnd as suggested we may not have reset the PRAM, as we should wait until we hear a couple of chimes of the MacBook booting.Īnd then finally reinstall Catalina from USB Stick.Īny ideas on what order to do things, and possible backing up, before doing the reinstall of Catalina from the bootable thumb drive.
#Macos catalina install pkdownloaderror 8 how to
I did some googling and can't seem to find a consensus on how to fix this other than troubleshooting. So I need to do things in the correct order. I followed the same sequence I have before to install Catalina but no matter if I am on stable WiFi or directly connected to the internet via Ethernet, the above message pops up as the install is terminated. Hopefully computer hasn't gotten to far gone. Today wife is going to see her, and will be bringing the computer and thumb drive I sent her back to me. So I have been wanting her to try and reinstall Catalina from the USB Bootable Catalina Install Thumb Drive.Not sure that she tried that. The e-mails were saying that her Name, Birthdate, Apple ID Login E-Mail, Password, Trusted Phone numbers have all been removed and replaced with another E-Mail, Phone number, name, birthdate and password. In our case, the package installation succeeded only when we specified one of the writable folders such as. When we woke up this morning we saw a series of e-mails from Apple on my friend's iPhone. In macOS Catalina, only certain folders are writable. She said she deleted chrome, but I am not sure she did it completely. option is not used, pkgbuild uses / as the default install location in many cases. She has tried to do a reinstall from the recovery partition on this Early MacBook Pro Retina 2015, but it stalls, with a PKDownloadError error 2. Daughters computer activity being taken over by an activity called LOGD.
