Unix command(s) to run a .app installer, not .pkg

yeah, this .app is actually an installer. i know, not normal. but that's what it is, you launch the app, and it runs an installer... If i go though the contents of the app, it's just and exec file in there, Normally, i would just pull out the .pkg and push that over ARD, but this is a Unix Executable. so it won't work..

I can launch it just fine and run it just fine. the problem is that i don't want to go to 90 machines and switch over to the Admin side and run the app rom there, and enter my local admin creed 90 times...

I suppose in writing this that i "could" run it form the logged-in user desktop, but then again, since users are not local admins, i would have to intervene and enter the local admin reds to get it to run.

I got it...

I was making to too complicated trying to "open" or "--install"

All i needed to send over ARD was: ./path/to/the/exec/inthe/app

as root, and it ran and installed...

Jeez, took me forever to get that one.

Thanks for letting me bounce the questions off you....

Yeah, this is where i'm weak... I've been doing Mac's for 20 years, but always hated the command-line, that's why i've always used Macs.. I can do some stuff, but very little in Terminal.

So, i know how to cd and ls and rm stuff, and if i drop the PackageMaker exec in Terminal it just launches the app..

So, how do i launch the exec in the PackageMaker app?

Because.....

It looks a lot like the exec in the app i am trying to get installed.

If i can learn how to actually run that exec in PackageMaker, i might be able to use the same to run the exec in the app i am trying to get installed.....

I have PackageMaker from Xcode..

How do i run this in Command-line mode?