{"id":12877,"date":"2023-12-26T12:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T11:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=12877"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:15:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:15:55","slug":"upgrading-macos-on-my-macbook-pro-15-inch-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2023\/12\/26\/upgrading-macos-on-my-macbook-pro-15-inch-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"upgrading my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) from macOS Mojave (AKA 10.14) to \u2026 hopefully Sonoma (AKA 14) \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What an adventure \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They let me upgrade directly from Mojave (AKA 10.14) to Sonoma (AKA 14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until 2021 I was pretty much always pretty uptodate on my Macs and on my Synology DiskStations. But then a few young fools frightened me, and I got stuck for ages with outdated OS versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I finally had to upgrade my MacBook Pro, as a few essential packages do not run any longer resp. got announced to stop running soon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homebrew_(package_manager)\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homebrew_(package_manager)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WhatsApp\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WhatsApp<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Signal_(software)\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Signal_(software)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Chrome\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Chrome<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least I do not have to expect upgrade disasters as with Linux in the 199x and 200x. But still \u2026 \u2013 with macOS at one stage file systems other than \/users\u2002were read only &#8220;by OS&#8221;, even sudo did not help any longer. How terrible that was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now I am only downloading the upgrade to Sonoma. I will find out, how the other upgrades work out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upgrade 2023-12-26 HH:MM : \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an adventure \u2026 They let me upgrade directly from Mojave (AKA 10.14) to Sonoma (AKA 14). Until 2021 I was pretty much always pretty uptodate on my Macs and on my Synology DiskStations. But then a few young fools frightened me, and I got stuck for ages with outdated OS versions. 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