The holy grail for any music producer would be the 30 + GB worth content of Logic Pro, helping you realize any music concept that you have in your mind. Just like anyone else, I tried downloading the packages from the Logic Pro software itself and it was extremely slow, even though I was running on a 50 Mbps connection.
As mentioned in the Brianli’s blog, I downloaded all the packages. After installation, found that several of the packages could not be installed or they were outdated.
Getting the latest links
Used the tool lpx_links for getting the list of latest URL from the mac site.
- Save the ruby script to your mac hard drive. I saved in docments > dev
- Open ‘Terminal‘ and ‘cd‘ to that folder
- Execute the command
cd ~/Downloads; mkdir -p lpx_links/app ; cd lpx_links/app ; curl -#L https://github.com/davidteren/lpx_links/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 ; ./lpx_links.rb
Open the file links.txt, which will now contain the latest packages. Make some quick edits so that the all the links are in seperate lines. In my case, several lines were concatenated.
Downloading the packages
- Download firefox
- Install the plugin downthemall
- Open the file ‘links.txt’ using Firefox ( File > Open . If you cannot see the menu bar, press ‘Alt’ on your keyboard)
- Choose the links and right click and choose ‘DownThemAll! Selection’
- Once you click on ‘Start’, the download will begin
Installing the packages
InstallPKG is a nice little for installing multiple mac packages