1381 Installing SD Client V5.3SR4 on Mac OS X 10.8.2

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Installing SD Client V5.3SR4 on Mac OS X 10.8.2

Issue:

User cannot install the SES SD Client V5.3SR4 package on a device running OS X 10.8.2 (as pre-installed on certain very new Mac OS X devices)

SES SD Client V5.3SR4 does not natively support OS X 10.8.2, as that version  was beyond the highest version number supported (10.8.1) when V5.3.SR4 went to GA (General Availability).

However, V5.3SR4 can be "forced" to install on OS X 10.8.2 devices (at least on an interim basis until V6.1 becomes available), as follows:

Avoiding this issue:

To be able to install the SD Client V5.3SR4 package on a OS X 10.8.2 machine, please make the following changes to the PKG file BEFORE installing:

File to be tweaked: SDMacintosh.pkg/Contents/distribution.dist

Line to be tweaked:115

Replace'4225' with '4226'