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gibMacOS Tutorial ~ How to Download macOS Directly from Apple

Hi all.
I am looking for a fairly recent gibMacOS.zip file and would appreciate if somebody could help me out. The download and or Clone buttons for this tool are currently unavailable on the repo , so at the moment I am a bit stuck.

Greetings Henties
 
The download and or Clone buttons for this tool are currently unavailable on the repo

I just tried and it downloaded ok for me.
 
@Feartech Thank you for the link, I downloaded the file and everything seems OK.
@pilgrim I can get into the repo but the "Download" and "Clone" buttons are missing, I can however get to the file listing page and download the code for each item separately, quite laborious actually, especially when I discovered it's not working after all this effort.
I just verified again that I cannot get the download options for gibMacOS to show at all, using @Feartech 's link - modified - that he provided ?
Attached screenshots show what I end up with.
Greetings Henties
 

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@Feartech Thank you for the link, I downloaded the file and everything seems OK.
@pilgrim I can get into the repo but the "Download" and "Clone" buttons are missing, I can however get to the file listing page and download the code for each item separately, quite laborious actually, especially when I discovered it's not working after all this effort.
I just verified again that I cannot get the download options for gibMacOS to show at all, using @Feartech 's link - modified - that he provided ?
Attached screenshots show what I end up with.
Greetings Henties
hit the green button called code, then download zip:

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For anyone interested in using Linux Mint and gibMacOS here's a good video tutorial on how to:

 
@Feartech Thanks for helping me troubleshoot this problem which is now fixed.
The green button and others disappear at the top of the screen as soon as that webpage is zoomed in with "cmd +" without adding any scroll bar, which would enable me to scroll back to what is now off screen. It happens both in Firefox as well as Safari. Why the page, upon opening, displays being zoomed in, without my intervention in the first place, is beyond my comprehension. Now, when I land on the page I just press "cmd -" to zoom the page out, and all is golden.
Strange things happen in strange places.

Incidentally "Big Sur" has gotten himself a new mate her name "Small Lay"

Greetings Henties and thanks again for helping me out on this one.
 
I am having issues with step 3. When I right click gibMacOS.command, Terminal opens up but I get an AttributeError. No pick options appear and nothing downloads.


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EDIT - got it to work after a quick update of my Yosemite system. That was the solution!
 
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I have a iMac Mid 2010 (Core i5 3.2GHz) and weak video Radeon 5670 (512mb).
I will be worth migrate from High Sierra to Catalina? My worry is about performance issues.
On a real iMac you can't simply upgrade to Catalina because of the SMBIOS that your 2010 iMac uses. I would stay with High Sierra. If you have a mechanical HDD you don't want to be using APFS as it really slows down.

The reason you'll use gibMacOS is not to upgrade your older Mac. It's purpose is to allow the download of Catalina so that you can create a USB installer to perform the macOS Catalina install on a PC to create a new hackintosh system.
 
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