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Cannot Upgrade Safari - "Need 10.5.2 or newer?" Um, I have 10.5.4?

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Khryz

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At one point in time Safari was behaving. Then about a month ago it was being very stupid and not loading so I deleted Safari in the hopes of re-downloading it from Apple.com. I later figured out you can't - so I got the Leopard install disks and re-installed Safari 3.0.4.

Now I want to update Safari to the newest version which is available on the Apple Website. I follow the steps, only to come to the Installer package which says when I'm choosing a place to store the update, that it cannot install Safari because I need Mac OSX 10.5.2 or newer.

Now obviously this is a bug or something because I have 10.5.4.

Can someone tell me what's going on?
 
It probably either means you need 10.5.2 exactly (that's what the download page implies) or there is a bug in the OS version detection script (less likely). If you're sure you need this update (you may not), you can use Pacifist to install it.
 
oh man thats bad i have the same problem and i cant seem to fix it. i get the same error as you.
 
SnowLeopard2008 said:
Download the Safari 4 Developer Preview! :D That works on all versions of Leopard. 10.5.x
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I had that but Safari 4 disables Mail Notes so I uninstalled it.

m1ss1ontomars said:
It probably either means you need 10.5.2 exactly (that's what the download page implies) or there is a bug in the OS version detection script (less likely). If you're sure you need this update (you may not), you can use Pacifist to install it.
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What's the point of an upgrade if you need an older Mac OSX update? That doesn't make any sense. And what is Pacifist?

KingYaba said:
http://webkit.org/
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Care you elaborate on what I'm supposed to do with this? I'm a Mac N00b.
 
Khryz said:
I had that but Safari 4 disables Mail Notes so I uninstalled it.
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Yeah, Safari 4 breaks random little things.

Khryz said:
What's the point of an upgrade if you need an older Mac OSX update? That doesn't make any sense. And what is Pacifist?
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It's an upgrade only if you have an earlier version of Mac OS X. If you have the current version of Mac OS X, you should never need it. Duh.

As for Pacifist, seriously, just Google it. Or search the forums for hundreds of posts asking the same question.

Khryz said:
Care you elaborate on what I'm supposed to do with this? I'm a Mac N00b.
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WebKit is just like Safari, but it doesn't use Mac OS X's built-in WebKit.framework; it uses the latest version, compiled nightly.
 
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