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It came as a bit of a surprise to me that after doing a clean install of Leopard that there was no more iPhoto. I suppose if I had looked around at all, I would have known, but I obviously hadn’t. Not to worry, after digging out the disks that came with my Macbook Pro, I decided to put together this install guide for others that ended up in my boat.
1. Pop in the Tiger Install Disk 1.
2. Double-click “Install Bundled Software Only”
3. Agree to everything, and then click the Customize button when you get to the Installation Type screen.
4. Select the parts of iLife you want to install. I wanted iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand.
5. Put in Disk 2.
6. Since it’s snowing, go grab a cup of hot chocolate while you wait for the install to finish.
7. Now run three rounds of Software Update, and you’re ready to go.
Tags: apple, howto, ilife, install
Hey, thanks for posting this. I just ran in to this problem. Your guide told me exactly how to solve it.
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Hey, I just discovered the same thing! I’m so used to having iLife bundled with the install discs that come with the computer, that it didn’t even occur to me that iLife 06 would be gone after my clean install of Leopard. Anyways, I’ll have some hot cocoa while I’m waiting….
Happy New Year!
Yeah, I tried to just find the iPhoto package on disk 2 and install that but oooh no, that is not the right version of OS X you are running there!
This seemes to work for me though. Thanks alot
I lost my installer CD for my powerbook G$ when I moved out to my new house :(, is there anyway that I can Install garage band? maybe a downloadable link? or maybe I can borrow my friends Installer CD and install it unto my Powerbook? Need help plz…..THX A LOT!
@Haniel
Not being a fan or advocate of piracy, I’d say your best bet would be to borrow your friend’s installer CD. Even that might not work though unless your friend has the same model computer that you’ve got. I’d be very surprised if Apple had a download link, but if you find one, be sure to let me know.
I’m on a MBP running OSX 1.5.1 (clean install) and I get the message “This software cannot be installed on this computer”.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. That was soooooo helpful. Made my day.
@George
Are you using the original CDs that came with your mbp? If not, the CDs might be only useable with the exact same mac they were bundled with.
thanks alot for this i accidently deleted imovie and sometimes i cant capture in final cut so this will help alot!
THANKS
ran into the same problem today—-this is GREAT!!!!
THANK YOU!
How do I install it if I don’t have the tiger cd? I just have the leopard ones. I downloaded iMovie 6 off the internet, but I can’t open it to install it. Any ideas?
If you downloaded iMovie 6 off the internet, then my official answer is that you’re probably not supposed to install it anyway =)
I actually have no idea anyway. It would depend on the format that you downloaded it in. Any pirate worth his salt would provide some sort of disk image that you could mount, but again, my official answer is that you should probably buy the software.
Thanks for the info.
It was quite useful for me to install garageband.
For the person that is getting the “can not be installed on this computer” message. I have an old powerbook that I put 10.5 on (clean install) and only had the install disks that came with my mini. I just put it back on the mini then copied it over in target disk to the powerbook, updated, and things seem to be going great. Currently putting the old library back on the book.
thank you sooooo mcuh! im at work right now, and am going to definetly try this when i get home. i just assumed that iLife would be on there when i did the cean instal, it always is… but not this time. ahah. thank you soooo much!