
For macOS versions up-to Big Sur, you need to use another script “ mand” in the main folder to join all the downloads and make the full macOS installer app.

The OS gets downloaded as parts, PKGs, DMGs and other files. A new folder “macOS downloads” appears in the “ gibMacOS-master” as you provide a download option, and the OS starts downloading as you can see in the video. You can use this script to download macOS Ventura 13, Monterey 12, Big Sur (11.1), Catalina (10.15), Mojave (10.14), and High Sierra (10.13.6). When the list is ready choose a number as per your OS option and press the Return/Enter key. Wait for the script to fetch the macOS download catalogue from Apple.

From the extracted folder, run the script called mand - it will open the Terminal as shown below. Hence, before anything, we will tell you how to download macOS offline installer directly from Apple to your Mac using a GitHub script.ĭownload the gibMacOS script from this link and extract it to your Mac. And you need to download a full-size macOS installer for making this disk. Installing macOS without internet requires a bootable USB disk. Having a macOS offline installer or a bootable USB disk is the only solution in such scenarios. But there are situations where you can’t download the OS from the Apple servers. Apple also provides an option for internet recovery of macOS if your computer fails to boot. The online OS update is OK if you have stable broadband connectivity and enough bandwidth. Be it a clean install or upgrade, Mac App store require you connect to the internet to download whole installation files. Disabling the Little Snitch network filter didn't affect anything.Customers get Software upgrades for Mac computers through the online app store ever since the release of macOS Lion. Even if I use defaults to enable the debug menu on the App Store, bump the logging level up to 4, there's not a lot of info shown in Console. I can exit the App Store, restart it, go back to the El Capitan page and do the whole process again, but nothing seems to let me download the full, latest version of 10.11.

When I return to it, the spinner is gone, nothing is downloaded, and I can no longer click the Download button. Eventually, I get tired waiting for the spinner to stop, so I'll go to a different desktop and do stuff or minimize the App Store window. The pop-up goes away and the spinner in the upper left keeps going. Since this is indeed what I'd like to do, I click the Continue button. You would like to download the full OS X installer click Continue. Use the Updates page to install the 10.11 update or if Would you like to continue? OS X v10.11.4 is already installed on I fire up the App Store, click the OS X El Capitan link on the right, then click the Download button. I'm trying to download the latest version of El Capitan (10.11.4) to build an updated flash drive installer.
