I realise that the recommended way of obtaining the latest drivers for Boot Camp is via Apple's official Boot Camp Assistant built into macOS, but was wondering if Apple offers an official index that can be used to easily obtain archival versions of the drivers that have been posted to the Apple website. Some simple searching has allowed me to find several different versions – through Boot Camp 2 to version 5, but as far as I can see, there's no "Boot Camp Downloads" page or similar from where these can all be found in a simple list.
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Best Answer
There used to be an Apple webpage which provided a table containing information needed to obtain the correct Boot Camp Support Software (Windows Support Software) for the each version of Windows officially supported for a given Mac. The information was either a link to a webpage where the correct Boot Camp Support Software could be downloaded or the name of the DVD containing the desired software. Basically, the DVD was the Snow Leopard installation DVD. Currently, this webpage has be replaced with the Install Windows 7 on your Mac using Boot Camp webpage.
The Snow Leopard DVD contains legacy Boot Camp Support Software for XP SP2 and Vista installations. To access the Boot Camp Support Software on the Snow Leopard DVD, you need to be running Windows. I can no longer find the link where you could purchase a Snow Leopard DVD from Apple. However, a Snow Leopard ISO containing the Boot Camp Support Software can be downloaded. See this link for more information. Again, you will need to Windows to mount and access the Boot Camp Support Software.
The accepted answer to How to download Bootcamp drivers without Bootcamp assistant? explains how to download versions of the Boot Camp Support Software (Windows Support Software) for a particular Mac. However, the answer does not explain how to determine the differences between the available versions. Below is a script which automates steps 1 through 8 given in the answer.
An anonymous edit was made to this answer, where the variable
sucatalog
was changed fromindex-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
toindex-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
.The identifier of my iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011) is
iMac12,1
. Assuming the script has already been saved to the filegetpkgurl
, the following command can be used to get a list of available downloads.The output from the command is given below.
The results show there are 4 possible URL's. Entering each URL in Safari will cause a version of the Boot Camp Support Software to download. The correct download would have to be determined by inspection.
This script was tested using
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin17)
. The version of macOS was High Sierra 10.13.6.