Update 10.3.9 Imac G4

I am trying to update my Safari, Firefox and Itunes but I keep getting a messge "The bill of material for this package was not found" What does that mean? This is an old Imac 10.3.9. When I try to use Safari it is not working very well. How can I get this old Imac updated?

Go to OS X 10.5 Leopard (if you can) Or OS X 10.4 Tiger then it can run newer apps and be more up to date and with Leopard you can run the newest version of iTunes and Safari for leopard you need a 867mhz+ G4 and 512MB RAM (768MB+ if you want to use leopard for more then just the text editor app)
spongebob9906 wrote:
I am trying to update my Safari, Firefox and Itunes but I keep getting a messge "The bill of material for this package was not found" What does that mean? This is an old Imac 10.3.9. When I try to use Safari it is not working very well. How can I get this old Imac updated?

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