I did a clean install of Snow Leopard, after which I installed Aperture 2.1 from the retail DVD. Now at this stage you cannot launch Aperture because versions lower than 2.1.4 are blocked from running on Snow Leopard. So I downloaded the 2.1.4 Aperture Update and tried installing it. The installer gave me the following baffling error message:

“Aperture 2.0 or later is required to install this update”

Next I went to Software Update and tried installing the update from there. However, Software Update didn’t show any updates either.

So I uninstalled Aperture 2.1 from my machine using App Cleaner, downloaded and then installed the full Aperture 2.1.4 30-day trial (sign-up required) and then activated it using my retail key.

Aperture 2.1.4 now works like a charm on my fresh Snow Leopard install.

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