I went ahead and bought ilife last night from BB and voila it did not work

Using the trick i had used for iwork, i tried just hitting continue and ignoring the update window. Did not work.

Then went ahead and tried the other technique of changing the SystemVersion and voila

cd /System/Library/CoreServices,

open SystemVersion.plist

Change 10.5.x to 10.5.6 ( two places )

Close, Install, reboot and voila

Im working with iphoto/ imovie now .. they work perfectly

nice dude, i was just worryin about ilife requiring 10.5.6...im going to try this when i get my copy of ilife 09 thanks

I tried to make the changes to the SystemVersion.plist however when I try to save it states I dont have permission.

@Steve:

Copy the file to your desktop. Open it, make the changes, save the changes and replace the file again.

zomg, it doesnt work..tried, installed, rebooted and voila-wont log in os x.. replaced systemversion.plist with orginal one in -s mode, still nothing..
Via logs i founded out that authorization process fails, any way to fix it?

I wonder if you should use the "chown" command on SystemVersion.plist after you've changed it?
At least for me, the original owner and group was "root" and "wheel" but after I changed it I was the owner.
I used "sudo chown root:wheel /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist" in terminal and "ls -all" to see the detailed list.

I installed iLife 09 with Pacifist on my 10.5.5 box (installed just fine). But on startup with iPhoto, you get an error dialog: 'Sorry, iPhoto requires 10.5.6' and then the program promptly exits.

Looks like you will have to change that file to say 10.5.6.

Make sure you change to root by doing sudo -s in the terminal before you make the change ..

-
J

If you don't want to change the SystemVersion.plist you can also hack iLife itself.. just drag the entire .mpkg to the desktop, right click it, show package contents, find the Package.dist just do a command-F to find 10.5.6 and change it to your current running version.

This way you don't need to repair permissions.

hi,
i did this and ilife 09 installed fine on my 10.5.3 hackbook. garage band & idvd run fine but iphoto and imovie give a "10.5.6 or later is needed" when i try and run them. i know i can change the systemversion.plist, but is there a way to change certain files within the iphoto or imovie contents so that the said apps think im on 10.5.6?

I'm running 10.5.5. I used Pacifist to install the whole iLife DVD, copied my systemversion.plist to the desktop, edited it to 10.5.6, and pasted it back. Then I ran "Repair Permissions" in Disk Utility before a reboot to double-check and iPhoto is now working fine!