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Title: Amiga OS 4.1 Final Amiupdate
Post by: Stephen on October 18, 2025, 08:15:11 PM

My Amiga OS 4.1 Final Amiupdate scans and downloads items. I get a message saying it cannot unpack file would I like to save it to Ram. It does not unpack and install any updates. Please help

Title: Re: Amiga OS 4.1 Final Amiupdate
Post by: NinjaCyborg on October 18, 2025, 08:25:41 PM

The answer is it's garbage, don't use it, update manually, the author refuses to acknowledge any bugs

Title: Re: Amiga OS 4.1 Final Amiupdate
Post by: lionstorm on October 18, 2025, 09:20:46 PM

I would advise to download the update directly from Hyperion website and install from here instead of gonig through amiupdate.

Title: Re: Amiga OS 4.1 Final Amiupdate
Post by: AmigaOldskooler on October 19, 2025, 08:08:44 AM

@Stephen

Hi,

I first tried AmiUpdate as well, but that failed, so I downloaded directly from the Hyperion website itself. Unpacked the archive, then ran the installer. Worked fine. 8)

Title: Re: Amiga OS 4.1 Final Amiupdate
Post by: F0LLETT on October 21, 2025, 10:35:01 AM

I personally found that Amupdate, always grim reepered on first use when trying to update itself.
I would then install it manually. After that not one issue, every just downloaded and installed perfectly.
However now, 3rd party downloads are missing, so it alwys fails on that.

Title: Re: Amiga OS 4.1 Final Amiupdate
Post by: nbache on October 21, 2025, 10:55:23 PM

All those problems should have been ironed out by now with the latest 2.58 version of AmiUpdate.

Of course the problem is it won't work if you try making an older, faulty version (like the ancient one on the installation CD from OS4.1FE) self-update to the newest, so the way around the Chicken and Egg situation is to get AmiUpdate 2.58 from amiupdate.net and install it yourself, before you try using it to install other things.

At least that's the way I have experienced it, and I know of several others that have e.g. created a new partition, installed FE from the CD, Installed AmiUpdate 2.58, then let the new AmiUpdate install Updates 1, 2, and 3, without any issues.

Best regards,

Niels

Title: Re: Amiga OS 4.1 Final Amiupdate
Post by: F0LLETT on October 22, 2025, 10:01:06 AM

Quote from: nbache on October 21, 2025, 10:55:23 PM

All those problems should have been ironed out by now with the latest 2.58 version of AmiUpdate.

Of course the problem is it won't work if you try making an older, faulty version (like the ancient one on the installation CD from OS4.1FE) self-update to the newest, so the way around the Chicken and Egg situation is to get AmiUpdate 2.58 from amiupdate.net and install it yourself, before you try using it to install other things.

At least that's the way I have experienced it, and I know of several others that have e.g. created a new partition, installed FE from the CD, Installed AmiUpdate 2.58, then let the new AmiUpdate install Updates 1, 2, and 3, without any issues.

Best regards,

Niels

Thanks, thats exactly what I was trying to remember. Definitely the chicken and the egg situation.

Title: Re: Amiga OS 4.1 Final Amiupdate
Post by: redfox on October 22, 2025, 07:06:28 PM

I used AmiUpdate to update from AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 2 to AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 3
 ... the update process worked fine, with no errors or hiccups.

AmiUpdate 2.58 installed in July 2025.

My system is an ancient Eyetech MicroA1-C.

Some programs on my system are now stale dated and require updates.

Cheers,
redfox