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Bookmark or Share- How to Inspect an OS X Package File (PKG) Without InstallingThere is a contextual menu item, “Show Package Contents” that allows one to drill into the guts of an application and view all its resources. Right click for contextual menu. Inspecting...
- mac - How can I open a .pkg file manually? - Ask DifferentIf you right click it, and click Show Package Contents you'll get a few files in a Contents folder. (Note: if you do not see Show Package Contents you will need to open Terminal.app and run pkgutil --expand mystubbornpackage.pkg path/to/expand)
- “Show Package Contents” Unavailable? Extract .pkg Files Without ...Assuming the ‘Show Package Contents’ option is unavailable, we can extract .pkg files using a command line tool called pkgutil that is bundled with Mac OS, which is what we’re going to focus on here.
- Show package contents from command line - Ask DifferentYou can simply cd into the package to open it in Terminal, then open Contents to open the contents in Finder. For example, to open the contents of Safari.app in Finder, you can run the following: cd /Applications/Safari.app open Contents
- Show Package Content option not available in High Sierra on a pkg fileIf you go to an application on you mac and right click on it, you get a menu and one option is to "Show Package Contents". This applies to apps. There is a way to show the contents of a pkg file but you must do it using the terminal. Just type the following command: pkgutil --expand /path/to/package.pkg /output/destination/.
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