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Sometimes you find an installation file in a .pkg or .mpkg file. How can we extract the files form these files?
We have found 7 software records in our database eligible for.iso to.dmg file format conversion. Converting ISO disk images to DMG format should be easy enough nowadays and can be done in most, if not all modern disk image handling utilities, but it is unlikely you will find a dedicated iso to dmg converter only. PKG files are Mac OS X installation (setup) packages that contain installer scripts ('Scripts' file) and compressed installation files ('Payload' file) that are used to install Mac software applications onto a user's hard drive. With AnyToISO it's possible to extract PKG file contents and even convert it to ISO format, on both Windows and Mac OS X.
You can try unpkg - which seems to support PKG and MPKG files a like - but it sometimes fails on MPKG files.
But we can do it manually as well ...
Typically such a package is located on a DMG file that has been mounted, let's assume this DMG is called 'MyApp.DMG', and therefor that it's mounted as /Volumes/MyApp. In Terminal (Applications - Utilities - Terminal) we type:
When you do a directory listing you'll discover that there is more on the disk, and we're mostly interested in the folder called 'Packages'.
Try:
which results in something like this (assuming the .PKG or .MPKG file is calle 'MyApp.mpkg'):
- Steps to convert macOS DMG files to PKG files. Go to the folder that contains the DMG file. Double click the dmg file and it gets mounted as a virtual disk and reveal its contents. Copy the.app file to the Applications folder in the mac; Eject the DMG file by clicking on eject button. Build the PKG file using the productbuild.
- I've noticed that many downloads are a dmg (disk image) that contains a single pkg file (installation package). Usually the pkg seems to be already compressed since the dmg doesn't reduce the file size much if any. Example: MonoFramework-MDK-2.10.61.macos10.xamarin.x86.dmg is 119,242,061 bytes (119.2 MB on disk).
- .dmg is a disk image, and a.pkg is sort of like a zipped file. I don't know the advantages to either of them, though. Solaris macrumors 6502a. Apr 19, 2004 706 98.
- If the InstallLion.pkg is on the same volume as the target volume, create a hard link to the InstallESD.dmg disk image in OS X Install Data, otherwise copy the InstallESD.dmg disk image to that directory. Create a com.apple.Boot.plist file in the Mac OS X Install Data directory which tells the kernel how to mount the disk image to use for booting.
- PKG file is an Apple Newton eBook. The Newton platform is a personal digital assistant developed by Apple Inc. The Newton platform is a personal digital assistant developed by Apple Inc. An Apple Newton book, a single Newton package file can contain multiple books (for example, the three books of a trilogy might be packaged together).
You see the directory called Packages? Let's go there:
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Here you'll find all the fun files, and per PKG or MPKG file the content will be different of course.
With the following statement you can reveal the files as we did before:
You can of course copy these files to for example to a folder called 'dummy' on your desktop :
Now you might run into .PKG files again, which can be extracted by unpkg (free) or the Unarchiver (free).
Some unpackers unpack the whole thing (unpkg), some require some help afterwards when you find files like:
Typically 'Payload' (largest) is the one we're looking for.
To unpack Payload, rename the file to Payload.pax.gz and execute the following command line statements to extract the files:
The first statement is to rename the file, the second will un-GZip the Payload.pax.gz file to Payload.pax. The last statement will extract the pax file.
Now you'll have all the files ...
If you use pkgutil to expand the InstallMacOSX.pkg it opens to three items, the Distribution file, InstallMacOSX.pkg and Resources. You can alter the Distribution file to ignore the supported platform check, see below.
Creating the Install OS X El Capitan.app on a mac that came with a newer OS than El Capitan.
Download the InstallMacOSX.dmg from Section 4 of How To Upgrade To El Capitan
Double-click to open InstallMacOSX.dmg to Install MacOSX.pkg.
Drag InstallMacOSX.pkg to the Desktop.
Open Terminal, enter the text
A folder will be created on the Desktop after a while with the contents of the .pkg file.
In there you will see an item called Distribution, Control-click on that and select Open With
go to Other and select Text Edit.
When the file opens scroll down to the section that reads,
function isSupportedPlatform(){
type in at the end return true; so it now reads as,
function isSupportedPlatform(){return true;
Now click Save and close the document.
Go back to Terminal and enter the text,
press Return, after several minutes, be patient, (check to see if the prompt has returned to Terminal) a new package will be created on the Desktop.
When created double-click on that and an installation window will open where you will now convert the
new InstallElCapitan.pkg to the Install OS X El Capitan.app which will be placed in your Applications folder.
You can now create a bootable USB using the install app and createinstallmedia,
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If you have the time I would be grateful if you could give this a trial, it works here on my mac, but I would like confirmation from yourself or any others reading this that the procedure works on macs that came with macOS Sierra or newer pre-installed. Oh and tell me if my description of the procedure is easy to follow and understand..
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Jan 15, 2020 12:58 AM