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If you're sick of waiting for the progress bar to complete every time you reboot after a macOS software update, then you'll be pleased to learn there's another way to update your Mac that could potentially reduce your downtime.

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• Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac. This update is available from Microsoft AutoUpdate. AutoUpdate is provided together with Office. It automatically keeps Microsoft software up-to-date. To use AutoUpdate, start a Microsoft Office program, and then select Check for Updates on the Help menu.
• Before macOS Mojave, users could easily check for the app as well as operating system updates by visiting the Mac App Store app. However, in Mojave, Apple has changed that. Now, the Mac App Store’s “Updates” section only shows the app updates and the software updates for the operating system.
• If you are having problems with any Office program, the first solution is to check for and install updates. How to Check for Updates. Open MS Word (or any Office program), click on the Help menu, and choose Check for Updates; In the Microsoft Auto Update window, select Automatically check for updates weekly, then click Check for Updates.
• Citrix Receiver 'check for updates'. Basically it checks for a text file in the users root directory, if that text file exists, it exits. If it doesn't exist then it runs the silent install to update the certs and creates a named text file in their root directory so the next time it runs it will not attempt to install again.
• By default, the Mac App Store will check for updates once a week. But in the fast-paced world of software, a week may be too long to wait for the latest features or bug fixes. Here's how to change the Mac App Store's update frequency using a handy Terminal command, allowing your Mac to check for updates as frequently as once a day.

The process involves a simple Terminal command, and allows you to continue using your Mac as the update downloads and the initial software installation takes place in the background. In our tests, we found that this method was capable of shaving off several minutes of idle time during installation restarts, but that the time-saving depends on the machine and the update in question.

Here's how to verify that your Mac is automatically downloading and installing security definitions: From the Apple menu, select System Preferences. Select Security & Privacy. The window shown below appears. Click the lock icon and authenticate with an administrator username and password. To see what updates are available for a Mac, or to install a software update from the Terminal of Mac OS X, amongst many other options including how to ignore particular updates, you’ll use the ‘softwareupdate’ command line tool as we’ll instruct below.

Users with older Macs in particular will likely appreciate this tip, as it saves having to fire up the Mac App Store altogether, which can be slow-going and sometimes even downright unresponsive. Read on to find out how it's done.

How to Update macOS From the Command Line

Before following these steps, ensure you have a full backup of your system, which should be par for the course when performing any update. Note that the following procedure only lists stock Apple system updates (iTunes, Photos, printer drivers the like), but not updates for other Apple apps that aren't installed with macOS (Xcode, for instance), and not third-party updates from the Mac App Store.

1. To update macOS from the command line, first launch Terminal, which can be found in the Applications/Utilities folder. This will open a Terminal window and a command prompt for you to begin typing.
   
2. Input the following command and press Enter: softwareupdate -l
   
3. Wait as your Mac searches Apple's servers for any macOS software updates currently available for your system. If no updates are available, you'll be returned to the command prompt.

Now let's take a look at the command's output. Available updates always appear as items in a list. In our example, only one update is available at this time, but every item follows the same format, as shown:
The asterisked line denotes the individual software update package that's available for your Mac to download. This line is also known as the identifier.
The second line offers a more detailed description of the update, including the version number (usually in brackets) and the download file size in kilobytes. [Recommended] means the update is recommended for all users, and [restart] indicates that your Mac needs to reboot for installation to complete.
To download and install a specific update in the list, use the following format, but replacing NAME with the update's identifier:
softwareupdate -i NAME
Or:
softwareupdate --install NAME
Note that if the package name you’re trying to install has spaces in it, you'll need to enclose the whole thing in single quotes. So for example:
softwareupdate --install 'macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 Supplemental Update-'
Also, be alert for spaces at the end of the package names. If present, they also need to be included within the quotes.
Moving on, to download a specific update for your system without also installing it then and there, you can use:
softwareupdate -d NAME
Updates downloaded in this way can be subsequently installed with the same -i or --install command above, or even through the Mac App Store. These updates are downloaded to a folder located in /Library/Updates, but they aren't designed to be installed by double-clicking the packages in that directory. You'll need to use the --install command or visit the Mac App Store to actually initiate the install.
Lastly, to download and install all available updates for your system, type the command:
softwareupdate -i -a
Using these commands, you'll be able to leave the update to download and continue to install in the background while you get on with other things. All being well, Terminal will eventually prompt you to restart your machine manually so that the full installation procedure can complete. (Note that the softwareupdate utility requires admin authentication for all commands except the -l or -list command. If you run softwareupdate as a normal admin user, you will be prompted for a password where required.)
As some users will no doubt be aware, there are several additional options that can be used in conjunction with the softwareupdate utility. For example, -schedule on/off enables/disables your Mac's scheduled background check for updates. More adventurous readers can use man softwareupdate and softwareupdate -h for a summary list of commands.

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How do I update Java for my Mac?

This article applies to:

• Platform(s): Mac OS X

The information on this page pertains to Oracle Java starting with Java 7, supported with Mac versions 10.7.3 and above.
Every time you launch a Java applet, a Java Web Start application or the Java Control Panel, the system first launches your program and then, in the background (so that performance of your Java application is not impacted), it determines if it has checked in the last 7 days for a Java update.

Update Java in the Java Control Panel

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1. Launch the Java Control Panel by clicking the Java icon under System Preferences.
2. Go to the Update tab in Java Control Panel and click on Update Now button that brings up Installer window.
   
3. Click on Install Update.
4. Click on Install and Relaunch.
   Save all your work before clicking Install and Relaunch.
5. Once the installation is completed the Java application will be relaunched.
6. If the Java application does not relaunch, manually relaunch so you can take advantage of the latest Java.

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If you choose Skip This Version, but later decide to check for an update, you can launch the Java Control Panel by clicking the Java icon in System Preferences. Go to the Update tab to initiate an update check.
If you choose Remind Me Later, you will be reminded of the update the next time you run Java.

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