Deploy to default application directory: The default drive is the system drive; the default path is Program Files in Windows and /Applications in Mac OS. Specify directory during deployment: Allows the end users to specify the installation path during the deployment of the package.

I am developing a Mac OS X application(cloud printing application). To run my application i need some support drivers. So i packed those drivers and my application using package maker software. And i created a pkg file.

Firefox for mac os 5.8. It working fine as a package installer. But i need to silently install this package by running by scripts / commands in terminal. PS: Silent install is the method that will install the software with any user intervention(like agree the terms).

It will silently install the software using admin privillages by using terminal commands. On windows side it is possible to do this silent install. Can anyone provide the solution to do this silent install in package installer?

Sometimes you find an installation file in a.pkg or.mpkg file. How can we extract the files form these files? You can try – 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: cd /Volumes/MyApp 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: ls -l which results in something like this (assuming the.PKG or.MPKG file is calle “MyApp.mpkg”): total 1288 -rw-r--r-- 1 hans staff 657803 Oct 11 17:15 MyApp.mpkg drwxr-xr-x@ 4 hans staff 136 Oct 11 17:13 Packages You see the directory called Packages?

Let’s go there: cd Packages 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: ls -l You can of course copy these files to for example to a folder called “dummy” on your desktop: mkdir ~/Desktop/dummy cp * ~/Desktop/dummy/ cd ~/Desktop/dummy Now you might run into.PKG files again, which can be extracted by (free) or the (free). Some unpackers unpack the whole thing (unpkg), some require some help afterwards when you find files like: Bom PackageInfo Payload Scripts 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: mv Payload Payload.pax.gz gunzip Payload.pax.gz pax -rvf Payload.pax 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 file. Now you’ll have all the files.