Stopping software update

I have tried to install a HP printer on SL and each time software update tries to find the drivers.
The problem is each time I re-boot, software update pops up asking me if I want to download and install the HP drivers. If I say yes, it tries and once again can’t find them and so the process goes on and on.
How do I permanently stop software update trying to install the Hp drivers?

HI,
Drag this file to the Trash.
com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag the file from the Preferences folder to the Trash, empty the Trash and restart your Mac.
See if that helps...
Carolyn

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http://macadmins.psu.edu/2011presentations/PSUMAC301-MCX-John_DeTroye.pdf
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(1) Open the Windows '''Control Panel''', Uninstall a Program. After the list loads, click the "Installed on" column heading to group the infections, I mean, additions, by date. This can help in smoking out undisclosed bundle items that snuck in with some software you agreed to install. Take out as much trash as possible here.
(2) Open Firefox's '''Add-ons page''' using either:
* Ctrl+Shift+a
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In the left column, click '''Plugins'''. Set nonessential and unrecognized plugins to "Never Activate".
In the left column, click '''Extensions'''. Then, if in doubt, disable (or Remove, if possible) unrecognized and unwanted extensions.
Often a link will appear above at least one disabled extension to restart Firefox. You can complete your work on the tab and click one of the links as the last step.
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I no longer own a HP printer. How do i stop software updates?

I no longer own an H-P printer. How do I stop updates for y non-existant printer?

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During the software update the system has stop since 14 hours ???

I recently bought a Mac Pro with 16GB and 512Gb Flash Memory ,as i retutn home and try to up date the software the system has stop since 14 hours.
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Reinstalling Tiger: Software Update Missing Many Updates

I've seen a few similar topics on this issue, but only in so far as Software Update missing an update here or an update there. I am currently reinstalling Tiger on a Power Macintosh G3 B&W that has been heavily upgraded. The system specs are as follows..
1GHz PowerLogix G3 (using MAChSpeed to enable full processor speed since the included CPU Director software won't work in 10.4.11)
1GB of RAM
128MB Radeon 9200 Graphics card connected to an LG 1952 display and set to 1440x900 / millions of colors
I'd go on, but the remainder of the hardware upgrades should have no effect on Software Update to the best of my knowledge. Previously I had this machine running 10.4.11, and through the Software Update program I had installed all of the recommended updates, which included numerous security updates, Safari 4.0.3, and iTunes 8.2.1. Everything was running perfectly smoothly, but after having tested several software configurations and having decided on one in particular, I set out to reinstall Tiger from scratch in order to keep things as clean as possible. I've tried several different times now with the same results each time. Once the system is up and running, regardless of whether or not I install MAChSpeed before or after running Software Update, Software Update simply does not provided all of the updates that I believe are actually there. It did see and did allow me to install the following updates..
10.4.11 Combo update (I installed this one separately before any other updates)
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Java for Mac OS X 10.4, release 5
[ditto], release 6
[ditto], release 7
[ditto], release 8
[ditto], release 9
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I reformatted the drive first and did a clean install. I'm currently in the process of downloading the standalone installers for Safari 4.0.3 and iTunes 8.2.1. It's looking like that's the solution at present, but I'm still curious as to why Software Update won't see any iTunes or Safari updates within the current system configuration's capabilities (speaking to both apps possibly being cumulative). I can't see Software Update simply not having those updates because there is newer version out, if indeed they are cumulative, since that would mean that anyone reinstalling or upgrading on an older machine would be forced to perform some of the updates manually where not too long ago they would have been able to simply use Software Update as a "one stop" solution.
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How to download older updates in Software Update Service?

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In our company, we have a mixture of Mac OS X 10.6.2, 10.6.3 and 10.6.4 servers. Due to proxy-restrictions, only one of these servers is able to download updates directly from Apple (this one has 10.6.4 installed). We have set up the Software Update Service on this server to distribute the updates to all other servers and at first sight, it seemed to work fine.
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fvvjqe3 wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried the following:
- stop Software Update Service
- remove /var/db/swupd/html and /etc/swupd to restore default settings
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- now both "Copy all updates from Apple" and "Delete outdated software updates" were unticked. That should be fine I suppose, as I don't want to download all the updates (e.g. we don't want printer drivers, Final Cut and so no), but only the ones we select. However, we still don't see e.g. Security Update 2010-04 in the list of available updates. Am I missing something here?
2010-05 includes all the previous security updates, I cannot find any reference to a 2010-004 update for Snow Leopard, only for Leopard (10.5). There was a 2010-003 for Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6.4 Update would also have included previous security updates. It looks like there was never a 2010-004 for Snow Leopard.

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That menu item just sets Software Update to ignore that particular version does it? I did spot it but the dialog which it opens says "You will no longer be notified of new versions of this update." which is not a very clear message but "new versions" made me think that clicking "OK" would make it ignore all future updates for the component and not just the particular version I want to skip.
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Hello -
I've got my Software Update Server all configured, I think, correctly.
Updates are downloading (71 downloaded so far, 71 available)
Have pointed my clients at the server using Workgroup manager (computer group) and following instructions on page 89 of the manual. ie entering :
http://su.domain_name.com:8088/index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.
sucatalog
as the server address (replacing the s.domain_name with my hostname)
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I had this same issue today. Apple support walked me through "completely resetting" the Software Update service and it worked. You need to stop Software update on the server, remove the contents of /var/db/swupd/html and /etc/swupd, restart the server and re-setup software update. This will cause all of the updates to download again.
However, I am curious what really fixed the problem and wonder if anyone who still has the problem can confirm this for me? If you look in the /var/db/swupd/html folder, are there 3 symbolic links in the folder for the tiger/leopard/snow lepoard catalogs? (See below...)
lrwxr-xr-x 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 87 Nov 19 14:19 index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog -> /var/db/swupd/html/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.s ucatalog
lrwxr-xr-x 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 75 Nov 19 14:19 index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog -> /var/db/swupd/html/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
lrwxr-xr-x 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 51 Nov 19 14:19 index.sucatalog -> /var/db/swupd/html/content/catalogs/index.sucatalog
Try recreating them if they are not there and trying again. Let us all know if it works or if my hypothesis is incorrect.

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First try this:
Uncheck the box for checking for updates.
Reboot
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I just did a software update that was apparently for iPhoto. When I try to open iPhoto it stops at "step 5" and will not go further. what do I do?

I just did a software update that was apparently for iPhoto. When I try to open iPhoto it stops at "step 5" and will not go further. what do I do?

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