How to run iLife’09 on 10.5.5 or below.

2 February 2009 by Vinay 10 Comments

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As you know iLife’09 requires Mac OSX 10.5.6 many of hackintosh user haven’t updated their OSX86.So if you haven’t updated yet or have 10.5.5 or below, then we have a simple trick to bypass this requirement which was submitted by one of iHackintosh fan Ridertahiti, it’s simple process just go for it and post your valuable comments for ensuring us.All you have to do is a simple edit in your existing SystemVersion.plist . Before editing make sure to backup SystemVersion.plist in case of restore.

If you don’t have 10.5.6 and you don’t want to upgrade do this :

Go to /system/library/coreservice/SystemVersion.plist Edit this files :

ProductBuild

Version 9E17

ProductCopyright

1983-2008 Apple Inc.

ProductName

Mac OS X

ProductUserVisibleVersion

10.5.6

ProductVersion

10.5.6

Voila,That’s it……………

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10 Comments »

Macs said:

Here is my way.

Just edit “iWork.dist” located at “iWork ’09 Install DVD/Packages/iWork09.mpkg/Contents/iWork.dist”

For ilife 09, just edit “Distribution.dist” located at “iLife ’09 Install DVD/iLife ’09.mpkg/Contents/Distribution.dist”

Its that simple.

# 7 February 2009 at 10:08 pm

jalex said:

I can install but not to run the app after =/

# 12 February 2009 at 11:43 pm

jalex said:

The problem is worst that think.
I was installed the iWork 09 and run normal
But now, I cant run any app of iwork too

# 12 February 2009 at 11:54 pm

Gabe said:

It says i cant save because i dont have privilages. Im the only account on this computer and i am an admin… any help?

# 15 February 2009 at 8:10 pm

Ben said:

to Gabe:

Have you tryed doing sudo -s in terminal
then cd /PATH/TO/INSTALL/PACKAGE/
…and run it from there.

# 25 February 2009 at 12:56 am

Dissonanz said:

Hi!

Safari 4 also can’t be installed on a 10.5.5 System. Does this option correct this problem too?

# 3 March 2009 at 3:46 am

swf.com.tw » 在HP黑潮機上安裝Mac OS X 10.5.5系統 said:

[...] Some software (such as: iLife 09), during the installation process will check whether the current system version is 10.5.6. iHackingtosh web article, modify system parameters to provide a means to deceive the installer, follow these steps: [...]

# 12 March 2009 at 3:13 pm

cheese said:

im a standard account and it wont let me save because of privlidges. any help??

# 5 April 2009 at 8:05 am

hi hi said:

i dont get it tho? what do i have to do like with the system/ and stuff i dont get it may someone guide me, like i mean, first go to the finder, and so on

# 31 July 2009 at 6:25 pm

Kristian said:

Has anyone had an issue with launching Itunes post hack of the .plist?? It seems that when I alter the .plist as mentioned in the above tutorial, Itunes crashes at launch. When I revert back to the original .plist, itunes works and Ilife does not. I am running an eeepc with osx 10.5, Itunes 9.0.3 and Ilife09.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

K

# 12 February 2010 at 6:18 am