Error installing ilife

tried to install iLife "11 on my iMac 24 running OSX 10.6.8 but keep getting an error saying to contact software manufacturer. My iMac does have the Intel Core 2 Duo processor with plenty of space on it. Can anyone tell me wny I am getting this error and what I can do about it/

The latest iPhoto version you can run with 10.6.8 is 9.2.3. So you should be able to install iPhoto from the iLife 11 disk and update to 9.2.3.
Get the demo version of Pacifist and use it to install the iApps you need from the iLife 11 disk. See if that gets around the error.
However, the OP in this topic couldn't install iLife 11 on 10.6.8 and surmized after considerable searching that one needed 10.7.5: HT4411 iLife '11 System requirements?: Apple Support Communities.
I don't know if that's true or not. But the specs for iPhoto 9.2.3 give jus 10.6.3 as the minimum system. So using Pacifist should do the job.

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