For some tests, I need to deploy a precise setup: MacOS 10.15.4 with Xcode 12.3. My MacMini 2018/2020 is running 10.15.5 with VirtualBox 6.1.12. I have a running VM with 10.15.0 which I snapshot after installation. My plan was to then do a manual upgrade to 10.15.4 thanks to the corresponding combo update , as I do not want to jump to the latest Catalina version. The process of the manual update is to mount the dmg file, which then shows the pkg file that starts the upgrade process when run, and asks to reboot at some point to finalize everything. The reboot doesn't take me to the upgrade process, but back to the 10.15.0. There are many blog posts and guides regarding what to do when you go through the more classical path of having an update be downloaded to /Applications/Install macOS xxx.app. My guess is that at some point, both ways of upgrading follow the same process (eg reboot to some kind of "upgrade partition" that will overwrite the OS files, reboot to upgraded OS). I would like clarifications on the parts where these upgrade paths differ, so that I can troubleshoot what is preventing me from reaching 10.15.4. In the past, I did similar things with 10.14 and my notes on the topic don't show such an issue (rather issues with lack of APFS support in VirtualBox at that time). In particular, I think the partition layout has changed since then. Essentially, what I tried so far: - start manual upgrade process through the .pkg, reboot - interrupt boot by hammering Esc, reach some kind of grey and blue boot manager (is that VBox or Apple stuff? this is not the VBox EFI shell, there is a text-based UI menu with "Device Manager"/"Boot Manager"/"Boot Maintenance Manager") - explore partitions, looking for an EFI boot file (I spotted the recovery one, can't find the "regular" one nor the "upgrade" one) - boot For example, I wonder if the pkg is partially extracted and that I am supposed to find a boot.efi somewhere on the "System Data" partition. If so, where should I look for it? Do I have a more "sysadmin" way of deploying this upgrade, in particular without reboot?

While searching for a good (better) solution for this Solution, I try to solve my problem with Packages , but with no success. My concrete problem looks simple: 1. Copy a file to /tmp (it's an configuration script) 2. Execute the following command: sudo installer -allowUntrusted -pkg "esets_remote_install.pkg" -target / So there are some (or a lot of questions): 1. To solve this problem, have I chose *Distribution* or *Raw Package*? 2. On a *Raw Package* (which also could included in distribution, I can choose Require admin password for installation, if this is checked, do I still need sudo before install? My first try was to add the pkg and the file for temp to *Distribution* Additional Resources in Requirement & Resources and run the script via Requirement. Did not work. My second try was to put it into the *Raw Package* Payloadand run the script via Pre-installation. Again, no success. Even adding the package and the configuration to Additional Resources seems not solve my problem. Thank you very much for all solutions and ideas. Even a console solution via pkgutilis welcome.

Is it possible to install a .pkg through an ssh connection to a Mac?

Does anyone know how to retrieve the version number of a .pkg file which isn't installed yet? I'd like to use something like **pkgutil --pkg-info**, but that only works for installed packages. I've also tried **installer -pkginfo -verbose**, but that doesn't show the version number. Is there a built-in command to do this, or alternatively, could someone suggest a one-liner please? Thanks.

I am trying to install via a pkg file and it keeps failing. - Ventura 13.3.1 (a) (22E772610a) - Brave Browser is the item being installed I accidently told the os to block install when it asked for permissions. I do not know where to reset the permission in order to run the installer successfully. It strickly tells me the installation failed.

My question is very similar to this post: How to convert a macOS .pkg into and .app to run it? It comes very close to giving me a solution, but in my specific instance, I’m trying to install DaVinci Resolve . Instead of following the instructions on that post, I found a very informative video that also *almost* works. I suggest you watch it here first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9Mi6t3_Lc. When I follow the steps in the video for expanding the .pkg, I’m met with multiple .pkg files, each containing a “Payload” file that can be turned into an app (according to the video). How can I combine all of these into a single macOS Application file?

I tried to use osascript but no luck:

> osascript -e 'do shell script "installer -pkg /Users/syabro/Downloads/Crystal_Software.pkg -target /" with administrator privileges'

0:117: execution error: installer: Error - the package path specified was invalid: '/Users/syabro/Downloads/Crystal_Software.pkg'. (1)

However, this works:

> sudo installer -pkg /Users/syabro/Downloads/Crystal_Software.pkg -target /
installer: Package name is Crystal
installer: Upgrading at base path /
installer: The upgrade was successful.

I don't need installer GUI, I want it to be installed silently. How to run pkg installer so that it prompts for a command-line password rather than in a GUI dialog/prompt?

Hoping someone can help. My Mac auto-updated to Sonoma when it released. As that caused a load of problems with the apps I use, I've wiped my hard drive, reinstalled Ventura and restored my files from a Time Machine backup. All seemed well but I've been trying to install a number of .pkg files and every single time without fail, the installer crashes and gives the following error log:

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Translated Report (Full Report Below)
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Incident Identifier: 84CBD041-8F12-483A-BCEC-9219EC1DBE92
CrashReporter Key:   227EF547-8608-5873-6E4E-10F36A9FBE2A
Hardware Model:      Mac13,1
Process:             Installer 
Path:                /System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer
Identifier:          com.apple.installer
Version:             6.2.0 (1131)
Code Type:           X86-64 (Native)
Role:                Foreground
Parent Process:      launchd 
Coalition:           com.apple.installer 

Date/Time:           2023-10-03 23:47:58.7952 +0100
Launch Time:         2023-10-03 23:47:58.2238 +0100
OS Version:          macOS 13.6 (22G120)
Release Type:        User
Report Version:      104

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Subtype: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000020
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000020
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Termination Reason: SIGNAL 11 Segmentation fault: 11
Terminating Process: exc handler 

Triggered by Thread:  0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   runtime                       	    0x7ff7ffbd204c 0x7ff7ffbce000 + 16460


Thread 0 crashed with ARM Thread State (64-bit):
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    x8: 0xfa19adc40a4300d8   x9: 0xfa19adc40a4300d8  x10: 0x00007ff7ffbffb99  x11: 0x00007ff7ffbffb99
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   x20: 0x0000000000000022  x21: 0x00007ff7ffbfff11  x22: 0x00007ff7ffbf9ddf  x23: 0x0000000308875b90
   x24: 0x000000010a3c82e0  x25: 0x0000000000000248  x26: 0x0000000000000009  x27: 0x00000002024b1000
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    sp: 0x0000000308875a90   pc: 0x00007ff7ffbd204c cpsr: 0x60001000
   far: 0x0000000000000020  esr: 0x92000005 (Data Abort) byte read Translation fault

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       0x202409000 -        0x2024a4fff dyld (*)  /usr/lib/dyld
    0x7ff7ffbce000 -     0x7ff7ffbfdfff runtime (*)  /usr/libexec/rosetta/runtime
               0x0 - 0xffffffffffffffff ??? (*)  ???

Error Formulating Crash Report:
dyld_process_snapshot_get_shared_cache failed

EOF

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Full Report
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I can't make any sense of it at all. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Thanks in advance!

I just created a .pkg using the following command: pkgbuild --identifier com.vinivia.xxxxxx --version 1.0 --component /Users/xxxxxx/ViniviaPoppins-AllinOne/ViniviaPoppins-AllinOne.ttc --install-location ~/Library/Fonts --sign "MySign" /Users/xxxxxx/ViniviaPoppins/ViniviaPoppins.pkg However, when I try to install it, the font gets copied to ~/Library/Fonts but doesn't show up in Font Book. Does anyone have any ideas on how to create a .pkg and install it in Font Book?

I have installed a .pkg package with the installer command. But there are problem with that installation. Now I want to remove it. Is there a standard way to do it with command line interface? Note: I have no access to the GUI interface of the machine.

I am trying to install "Packages", to create an installation package for an App I am developing. After I mount the disk image file, I am trying to start the installation process by launching the .pkg file. However, this only opens the encoding. How do I install the app from here? I have tried changing the application that this opens with, but any app opens the encoding.

I have a legit non-app store app installer I downloaded from my VOIP business vendor portal to install called TELUS_Business_Connect.pkg (Canada VOIP Provider).. which is really just Ring Central rebranded. When I first tried to install the pkg accidentally clicked "NO" to the security prompts that macOS needed me to allow for the PKG software to install correctly. Using all defaults. Now when I rerun the PKG installer to retry.. it always fails and never prompts me like before. How do I make macOS **forget** that it has ever seen this PKG before?

After double-clicking on a .pkg file, the Installer gives following error: The operation couldn't be completed. (com.apple.installer.pagecontroller error -1.) Couldn't open "[filename].pkg". What does this mean? Is the problem caused by the .pkg file?

I know this question was discussed many times before, but the proposed buildkg-commands don't work for me on Mac OS Monterey. Here are two commands I tried:

sudo pkgbuild --install-location /Applications/MyApp.app --component $HOME/Build/MyApp.app $HOME/MyApp.pkg

sudo pkgbuild --install-location /Applications --root $HOME/Build $HOME/MyApp.pkg

For both commands I get an empty app-bundle in /Applications after installation and for some reason (possibly related to APFS copy-on-write feature?) the source app-bundle (used when building the package) gets empty too.

I have installed some libraries with Homebrew but if I use pkg-config it does not find them because there are missing .pc files. For example, if you do: brew install opencv and, after it is installed: pkg-config --libs opencv I get this error: Package opencv was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `opencv.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'opencv' found This error is caused because Homebrew does not create any opencv.pc. Is there a way to configure Homebrew to create the .pc files so that all packages installed with brew can be found by pkg-config?

Most apps come packaged in a .dmg file, where once mounted all you have to do is copy the .app, special directory to you Applications folder and that's it. Nice and clean, if you ever want to uninstall the app, you just remove it. However, what about .pkg files? I know there are some commercial solutions, but really, that's not to satisfactory.

Is it possible to remove all that was installed by a pkg installer? I read that "When a package is installed, it creates a “receipt” which contains details about what files and directories were created." But does this "receipt" always all details about what files were created or is this creation up to the pkg file (thus its developer)? My problem is that when i install some pkg, i want to make sure that even if it contains some spying "crap" that it can be removed.

I know about , pkgutil --files, and lsbom. I know also that installer packages are really a XAR archive. What I do not know yet, is that whether running a .pkg installer packages guarantees that all the files produced as a result of running it will be tracked? For instance, when a .pkg installer package ran some arbitrary scripts, will the files be tracked by macOS? I tried searching and there does not seems to be any official documentation on this. Some unofficial guides: https://matthew-brett.github.io/docosx/flat_packages.html http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/Ivanhoe/FLAT.html Although not explicitly mentioned, these guides seems to be indicating that the files won't be tracked, is this correct? Also, are there any official answer on this?

I've seen multiple tutorials in how to create an installer to distribute a MacOS application, but they're all very simple examples (just installing an application and placing it in /Applications). To do that, they use : sudo pkgbuild --install-location /Applications --component application-path ./Desktop/installer.pkg My situation isn't that complex either, but I can't find out how to do it. I want to install an application to /Applications, but I also want my .pkg to place a .dylib in a specific folder. I've tried doing this : sudo pkgbuild --install-location /Applications --component myApp.app/ --install-location /destination/for/my/dylib --component myLib.dylib ./myInstaller.pkg but it says that it doesn't accept my .dylib because it's not a "valid bundle component". How can I do this?

There's some apps that are sort of irreplaceable for a user, yet at the same time unwanted by them, *(due to violating privacy, controversial history etc.)* In my case that is Google's Android File Transfer**¹**, which is irreplaceable *(to me)*, yet like any Google product, behaves literally like malware when installed on your computer. When it comes specifically to an app that is: **(i)** simply "drag-to-Applications-folder" to install (rather than through a .PKG installer**²**), and **(ii)** on a computer that hasn't already launched/used that "sketchy" app (now or in the past), can I: **(a)** Make a burner Standard-type User Account → logout from my Admin acc → login with that burner one → download and use the "sketchy" app there and then, but making sure I don't use my Admin credentials at any time, if/when asked while logged in the burner one → logout and back in with my Admin acc → and just erase the burner one? Would that leave any traces of the "sketchy" app behind, or is it as if it's never been on this computer? **(b)** Instead of deleting that burner acc, can I just keep it for future use, so that it permanently works sort of as a *sandbox*, for when I need to use "sketchy" apps? (Since I haven't been able to find a built-in or 3rd-party macOS feature which sandboxes apps for you) Or would it leave my computer susceptible to those apps? __________ **¹** The reference to that specific app is purely indicative; my inquiry applies to **any** app that one might deem "sketchy". **²** i.e., app related files will inevitably be installed in /Library/ (and not just ~/Library/) for the app to work properly, when installed through a .PKG installer. Examples: Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, etc.