I blogged about changing the CatalogURL back in the days and nowadays websites are no longer shy to mention what you need to do in order to get a Beta or Developer seed without first having to sign up for Apple programs. All you need to do is change the App Store URL – the so called CatalogURL – to one of the following with sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --set-catalog
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.11seed-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.11beta-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz
Regular Updates
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz
Edit:
You can show/verify the CatalogURL with the following terminal command:
sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL
Et voilà.
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hmm. not working here. this catalog change enables softwareupdate to download and install developer-seed OS updates without enrolling in the dev program, right?
so i sudo’d the catalog change to the developer url, and then listed available updates – response was none available (from both command line and app store gui).
then tried restarting mac, still no dice. ran sudo softwareupdate -clear-catalog command to reset catalog url, then tried both dev and beta urls, still “no updates available”.
i’m on current yosemite 10.10.5 – am i missing something?
Well. Sort of. First check the Beta seed, which should work, and after that you can swap the CatalogURL for the developer seed one.
First of all – i should say thanks for the amazing and handy macosxbootloader.
however, for sure the catalogurl isn’t allowing me to get el cap’n through softwareupdate.
i just now changed it to the Beta seed, and here’s the response
sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.11beta-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz
softwareupdate -l
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002-2012 Apple Inc.
Finding available software
No new software available.
Hey man I just noticed you had missed one (-) from your: sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate –set-catalog so i changed it to — set-catalog 🙂 then it worked thanks for your amazing work and blog, hope you doing well take care 🙂
Oops. Thanks!
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