With Rosetta 2 support winding down, time to revisit offline installer backups (Apple’s legacy software availability notwithstanding).
Copying the Rosetta 2 installer for offline installations – Alan Siu's Blog
I honestly don’t know why this gets asked about as often as it does, but I’ve seen several instances in which Mac admins want to know how to get the Rosetta 2 installer .pkg to be installed offline. The installer is about 6.2 MB, so I don’t think bandwidth is the issue, but maybe it is.
Back up the Rosetta 2 installer for offline use
Download and install Rosetta 2: % softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license
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Tiles version 0.4.4 Alpha 8 has been released. tiles.run/download Adds support for a fully offline, portable installer alongside the network installer, with the default gpt-oss-20b model bundled, and daemon process implementation for handling background tasks reliably.
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