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Bash Profile Configuration. The profile file is run during boot-up to configure the terminal to define file path, shims, and autocompletion handlers. This is the single biggest frustration with people using Linux on Mac. One of the earliest articles on bash here shows shell variables, environment variables, and aliases. Each operating system has its own file name for its profile. Must See: How to Dual-Boot OS X Yosemite & El Capitan; For those of you who have never used Terminal commands to change up your system settings, I've thrown together a list of my go-to commands to get my Mac up and running fast. As the El Capitan beta is still in an early form, your mileage may vary with these commands if you're using that OS.

When you’re booting your Mac from the recovery partition and are planning to reinstall OS X, you might be met by the following message:

An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running again

Now, if you haven’t used your Mac for a while, the error might be caused by an incorrect system date setting. You can check this by going to utilities and opening the terminal. Once in the terminal enter the following command and hit return/enter:

The result of this command will be the date that the system currently has been set to. For some reason, it might have been reset to 2001, in which case we need to set it to the right date. To do this, we enter a new command. This command will be entered as follows:

Every bracket should be replaced with a two-digit number based on UTC time. Below you see what the command should be for your current time and date – . To avoid trouble with timezones, we will use UTC time instead (). Which means, you can just enter it exactly like this:

Enter the command and hit return. You can then check if it was set correctly by running the first command again. If the date was wrong, it was likely that which caused the error, and after you quit the terminal it should be able to install OS X just fine.

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Why do you need to download El Capitan through Terminal.

El Capitan is freely available from this link.


Here are the instructions.


Go to Section 4 and click on Download OS X El Capitan.


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This downloads InstallMacOSX.dmg to your Downloads folder.


The next section can only be done on a mac that is capable of running El Capitan,

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a mac that came preinstalled with an OS later than El Capitan will refuse to do the next bit.


When downloaded open to InstallMacOSX.pkg, double-click on

that and an installation window will open, this does not install El Capitan

but converts the InstallMacOSX.pkg to the Install OS X El Capitan.app which

you will find in your Applications folder, it should be 6.2GBs in size.

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(If the installation window asks which disk you want to install to, you must pick

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the disk that you are booted to at the time. Not any internal or external disk that

you want to eventually install El Capitan on, that is for later.)


To start the installation of El Capitan double click on the Install OS X El Capitan.app.


The copy of the install app self deletes after installing El Capitan, so make sure you keep a copy of the InstallMacOSX.dmg

if you need it in future, or you could just make a copy of the Install OS X El Capitan.app prior to installing and moving it to

an external drive for safe keeping. It is also possible to create a bootable USB installer disk using the Install OS X El Capitan.app

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in the Applications folder and the createinstallmedia command in the Terminal app.


Read the instructions here,

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Sep 2, 2020 12:18 AM