Sunday, 6 May 2012

XCode 3.2.6: "Installation failed " "An unknown error occurred"

I recently tried to install XCode 3.2.6 together with iOS SDK on my Snow Leopard machine, after initial steps, the installation failed saying an unknown error occurred. I tried lots of solutions, but none of them worked, except this silly one: Change computer's date to: January, 1st, 2012
Very silly idea, but it solved my problem and XCode is currently being installed as I'm writing this post...

22 comments:

  1. Wow, this actually worked for me. I have no idea how you figured this out, but thanks. Seriously.

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  2. That is so bizarre! But thanks it worked for me too. I haven't been able to test it yet, but it's installing alright.

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  3. Wow!! Awesome.. It worked for me too.
    But how did you debugged this problem?
    I want to know the insight behind this.
    Apple lost with you badly on this :)

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  4. What the frakking hell! This actually works. Weird. Apple is losing its mind.

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  5. I dont beleive it.Man it actually worked none of the stupid stuff given on other sites works but this.....
    Its installing.
    Love you Mrt && Jan 1 2012

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  6. Jajajaja... I can't Belive this but it workek!

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  7. It's so amazing. Thanks for your sharing!

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  8. That's right, very silly but works... thanks a lot.

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  9. Works like a charm! I've been fighting this issue for weeks. Thank you very much!

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  10. Thank you very much. It worked perfectly.

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  11. Wow.. I was about to give up. I somehow landed on your page. Thanks a lot for sharing. I am so happy to see it working.

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  12. i am using mac 10.6.7 on vmware windows. Your solution works for me, after hours research solution for "unknown error"

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  13. It worked perfectly for me too, in a virtualized OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8, under VirtualBox 4.2.4.
    Funny that it worked differently in 2 different installation on PC:
    - in one case I had to set the date to 1/1/2012 (Pentium DualCore, 2GB, Win7-32bit);
    - in another case I didn't need to change it (Intel DualCoreQuad, 5GB, Win7-64bit).

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  15. Many thanks and it works for me :-)

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  16. What the frakking hell???!!!!! I've been on this for MONTHS!!! Downloaded all sorts of updates! Like what the hell??? How did you find this out???

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  17. hahaha, this is Hilarious, that's work for me perfect. Thanks

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  18. After countless tries, this comes as a truly welcome blog post. Thank you so much!

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  19. It doesn't make any sense but... it worked for me too. Thank you very much, you saved me a lot of Googling xD.

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  20. It's because the certificate installed with the package has expired.
    Unfortunately, for me, the install gets to 80% then fails... more research I guess.

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