macOS Big Sur Installation Failed: 'An Error Occurred While Installing the Selected Updates'

[Stockton12]

This is harder to get than a playstation 5

 

[Slug]

Mine is anything but fast VPN to Australia from UK says about four hours remaining hahahahaha

while downloading from Australia, I switched to Belgium and it carried on downloading OK but much faster

 

[SIMSAL]

Vienna Austria no VPN works fine.

 

[jasmine84]

Dang hope this gets fixed soon. The last few MacOS updates were seamless.

 

[ppetrovic]

Just began downloading over here in Serbia. Looks like they’re finally letting Europe in for the ride along with the rest of the planet.

 

[joelovesapple]

Well I am in the UK and am listening to Tougher than the Rest by Bruce Springsteen, and it seems to be downloading for me at the moment...

 

[internetExplorer]

gibMacOS working for me now in UK

 

[Bandaman]

It's working again! Apple fixed the Internet!

Nope.

 

[GLS]

Downloaded the twitter link and set it aside; I'll check the MD5 of it later.

Enabled VPN to the land down under, and it started; says I have about 6 hours remaining (300 mb connection)

 

[evi]

Was so excited to download with my gigabit connection.... here I am routing it through Australia

 

[dontwalkhand]

Still nothing in Arizona, and I don't have a VPN, nor am I interested in one.

 

[SpoonHandled]

It's suddenly downloading fine on all 3 of my Macs here in the UK - no VPN or clearing caches - I just clicked the button again - expecting the same error - and it's downloading

Same downloading really fast in UK now full 350mbps ISP speed.

Spoke too soon, it is still downloading in UK but slower speeds. About 1 MB/s.

 

[Pizzakoerier]

Tried to re-download using no VPN (in Belgium), didn't work. Switched on my VPN to a Belgian server, and now it started re-downloading somewhere it had dropped previously. Let's see how this ends...

 

[Apple_Robert]

Install is complete.

 

[jozeck]

Works in Poland, no VPN.

 

[x03r4]

works without vpn in Poland!

 

[gleavek]

Even after finishing complete download I was facing An error occurred while installing the selected updates. error.
Executing following command fixed it for me.
sudo softwareupdate --reset-ignored

PS: Didn't use any VPN
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Finally...someone giving extra info thanks. Mine was stuck being unable to install and guarantee that is because it didn't fully complete the download - even though the system said it did.

I ran that command, clicked update (No VPN and I'm in UK) and it has started straight up from 3GB download. This proves that it had only downloaded that much before. I'm confident that if this completes it will now install but I will updated.

It says it will take 22 minutes to complete and is flying through the download.

 

[Bandaman]

Install is complete.

Now to clean that desk ...

 

[Apple_Robert]

Don’t forget to save the install file to your download folder before installing. Otherwise, you will lose your install file.

 

[AppleAviator18]

Finally...someone giving extra info thanks. Mine was stuck being unable to install and guarantee that is because it didn't fully complete the download - even though the system said it did.

I ran that command, clicked update (No VPN and I'm in UK) and it has started straight up from 3GB download. This proves that it had only downloaded that much before. I'm confident that if this completes it will now install but I will updated

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Guessing that sudo command only works if you're in the middle of the download. Didn't work for me but my 12.18GB downloaded hours ago, just haven't been able to actually install.

 

[Mi1lion]

Install is complete.

You taped this problem up great!

 

[Apple_Robert]

Now to clean that desk ...

Right you are. I have too much junk on it at the moment.

 

[HiVolt]

Still nothing in Toronto, Canada...

 

[patimages]

Was so excited to download with my gigabit connection.... here I am routing it through Australia

try EU : much faster

 

[Boosf]

My machine can no longer run any 3rd party programs after a restart after several installation failed notices during download.

I had the exact same thing occur. All Apple apps opened with no problems but every single 3rd party app would just bounce in the dock and never open. It continued for over an hour. WTF?!