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Introduction |
Like Microsoft Update in Microsoft Operating Systems,
MAC OS X as well has a utility to check for updates
and upgrade your MAC OS X operating system and 3rd
party applications. Software Update is a software
tool by Apple Inc. that installs the latest version
of Apple software on computers running Mac OS X. It
was originally introduced to Mac users in Mac OS 9,
and continue to be included with the latest version
of OS X, MAC OS X Lion.
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In this article, I will show you
how to :
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Manually
Check for software updates, download and
install them
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Configure
Software Update to check periodically
for updates, and to download them
automatically
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Check which
Software Updates are installed on your
machine.
A.
Manually Check for Software Updates, download and
install them
To check for software update ,
download and install these updates, follow the below steps
:
- From the left
side of the Menu Bar, click on the apple
Logo

- Click on Software
Update…

- Software
Update will check online to see
if there is any update required for your
system

- Once Software
Update finishes checking online for
available updates, The below dialog box
will appear where you have three options
to choose:

- Show Details
: clicking on this button
will show you a list of
available updates . By default, all the
available updates are selected, if you
don’t wish to install a specific update,
then unselect it.
- Not Now :
Clicking on this button will exit from
Software Update
- Continue :
Will start downloading and installing
software updates without reviewing them
first.
- I have clicked on
Show Details. Now you
will be given a list if available
updates for your system. You can review
each and read a briefing about it by
simply clicking on the name of that
update. Once you have made your choice
and selected which updates to be
installed,
click on the Install N Items
button, where N is
the number of available updates for your
MAC

- The Selected updates will start to
download. Once download is completed,
the updates will start to be installed
on your system. Some updates require a
system restart to complete the
installation. If this is required , then you will be informed by a dialog box
that the machine needs to be restart to
complete the installation.

With this step, we have completed part A
of this article that is related to
manually checking for software updates.
Lets see now part B.
B. Configure
Software Update to check periodically for updates, and
to download them automatically:
Software
Update can be configured to check for updates
automatically. To open Software Update
preferences, you can do this either by using any of the
below methods:
C. Check which Software Updates are installed on
your machine.
Open Software Update
preferences, and under the Installed Software
tab, you will have a full list
of all the updates that were installed using
Software Update, the date the update was
install on, the name of the update and finally the
version that was installed.

Summary
Software Updates consist of incremental updates
of the Mac OS X and its applications, Security Updates,
device drivers and firmware updates. Software Update can
be checked manually or can be configured to check and
download update automatically.
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