Upack .pkg from MacOSX in Linux
Small info how to unpack from .pkg file on linux. As it seems little hard to find out 😉
First you need xar – eXtensible ARchiver – available at http://code.google.com/p/xar/. Just download, unpack, configure, make , make install 😉
Next , you need just do xar -t -f something.pkg – it will extract files , for example (Bom PackageInfo , Payload, Scripts). All data should be in Payload file.
Last one , just uncompress that Payload file – gunzip -c Payload | cpio -i
All done, MacOSX @#&*$#
“Next , you need just do xar -t -f something.pkg – it will extract files”
where is extracted files, I could not find working directory
thanks
mz@mz-len:~/Desktop/2$ xar -t -f 2.pkg
library.pkg
library.pkg/PackageInfo
library.pkg/Bom
library.pkg/Payload
library.pkg/Scripts
Distribution
Resources
Resources/en.lproj
Resources/en.lproj/background
Resources/en.lproj/License
Resources/ja.lproj
Resources/ja.lproj/background
Resources/ja.lproj/License
Resources/zh-Hans.lproj
Resources/zh-Hans.lproj/background
Resources/zh-Hans.lproj/License