Cannot install sky go on Mac

[Kayourt]

Animacs - thanks so much for your replies and knowledge! I imagine folks running OC aren't at the top ot the priority list for Sky, but it's a machine that was destined to be recycled, which would have been a shame & it appears to be a reliable and useful machine for any other softwares I want it to run. It would be great if Sky could make the Go app a bit more friendly to be run on macs in general, judging by the amount threads on this sort of issue. 

In regards to your last comment - absolutely this seems to be the only option to get it going for now - to create another partition & load the last supported OS onto it. I'll give it a go when time allows & update this thread if it works. 

Thanks again! 

[Animacs]

HI,

If you go into Disk Utility, you can create a new volume, not a partition, call it Monterey. You will have to then put it into recovery mode using Cmd+Shift+R when you restart the Mac. That should then give you the option of installing the last official version for your Mac, which in your case is Monterey. Install that onto the new Monterey volume, then you can install Sky Go natively there. 

I can't see Sky ever making this happen as they wouldn't be thanked by Apple for doing it!

I've upgraded at least 150 macs with OC and this is the first piece of software that I've come across that doesn't work in those installations. 

[Animacs]

Just one point on it being "more friendly to Macs", I think that was just a temporary thing as the latest versions are "universal" which means that Rosetta shouldn't be needed for installing it on Mx Macs. It was perfectly happy installing on my 2022 Macbook Pro as well as my 2015, running a "native" OS. It was only when I tried it this afternoon on a 2015 I'd just upgraded to Sonoma using OC that it refused to install.

[Animacs]

And one final piece of information. This is being restriced by the age of the Mac, it has nothing to do with the OS on its own.

Tonight I installed Catalina, native on 2013 iMac, it bounces. It didn't matter how I tried to install it, through the installer, terminal or copying it, it bounced.

I don't know whether this is something that Sky is colluding with Apple on but it's grossly unfair when it will run on Catalina with a 2015 but not on a 2013. I think that this is why it's not working with Kayourt's trashcan Mac Pro and it's something that can easily be remedied should Sky be bothered to do it.

Macs aren't cheap pieces of junk running Windows, they have an extended life and should be kept running as long as possible, so if anyone from Sky is actually reading any of these posts, feel free to contact me to discuss the situation so I can clarify things for you and, hopefully arrive at a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.

[Animacs]

Kayourt, please let me know if you get any joy installing it on Monterey. If it folloos the same pattern as the iMacs I've been installing it on, I'm thinking it's not going to work. The Mac Pro is a powerful Mac in spite of its size so it doesn't follow that it should be sidelined like this, just because of its age, when it's working perfectly well in all other respects.

[Willy71]

So is there anyway sky go can be opened on macbook air? if so cn someone tell me in an idiots guide? Minejust keeps downloading !

[Animacs]

If it's 2013 it's not going to install. Haven't tried with 2014, but should be okay with 2015 or anything later. 

[wj13579]

Running a 2015 Macbook Pro, Mojave.

Sky Go no longer works for me. Same problems everyone else has.

I have to use this OS, as it's essential for some cuicial software I use for work, that doens't work on any more recent OS.

So, just like so many other Mac users here,  it seems I'm stuffed. 

[Animacs]

If you read my earlier posts, you can set up a new volume with Catalina, Bug Sur or Monterey on it and then install Sky Go.

What's the software that keeps you on Mojave? Office 2011? I can only think that it's 32 bit software that won't run on Catalina.

[wj13579]

It's a niche web design software that gives my business a huge SEO advantage over modern software, and results in hundreds of thousands of extra visits per month, compared to when I use other cloud-based web design tools. 

I like to be working on that software, and have Sky Sports on in a small window in the background, at the same time. 

[Animacs]

Yeah, you're a bit stuffed then. Hardware will support it, but you need Catalina and, no doubt next year it will lose that and go to Big Sur. 
There is one alternative for you and that's to run it in Virtual Box with Monterey, or use Parallels. It may or may not work, don't know, I don't have anything to test that with. 
What's the software you're stuck with?

[FrankieGG]

This helped me to understand Rosetta and its installation, and it made Sky Go work on my new MacBook Air.

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/102527

[Animacs]

That only applies to older versions of SkyGo, once Sky made the application"Universal" Rosetta 2 was no longer needed.

[FrankieGG]

I literally just did it and got Sky Go working on my brand new Macbook M3.

[Animacs]

Open using Rosetta is an option in the Get Info window, but it also says the App is Universal. When I installed it on my 2022 MacBook Pro it didn't need Rosetta to do it.