When working with a macOS .pkg installer, you might occasionally need to peek inside and tweak a specific file — maybe to adjust a config, replace a resource, or fix a detail before installation. In this article, we’ll walk through how to safely unpack a…
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If you’ve ever installed a .pkg file on your Mac, you might think the installation is invisible once it’s done. But behind the scenes, macOS keeps a detailed record called a receipt. Think of it as a digital footprint of every package your system installs.
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There are several common ways to find the Bundle ID / CFBundleIdentifier of a macOS app. We'll focus on utilizing the Apple onboard macOS software tools Terminal and Finder. Terminal with osascript You can find the Bundle ID of an application on a macOS system using…
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Full Disk Access (Allows the application access to all protected files, including system administration files) is need for an app to function correctly on macOS. How can that be fixed with an mobileconfig profile and send it out to all macOS clients using MDM. Note!…
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In this guide we will go through two ways to use the application Packages to create a macOS packages from a pkg or dmg. Package can after its build be used to distribute with your favorite MDM. The Packages application used to create the pkg…
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