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I've update my osx into yosemite. Now i want to view application package contents. In earlier version of osx there was a option name "show package contents". But now when i right click on application there has no "show package contents" option.
now how to view the package contents??
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I downloaded an installer package (.pkg) that was not showing a right click package contents option. It turns out the contents were compressed. I didn't know about TextWrangler's Disk Browser utility but it didn't work in this case (the file didn't show up in the listing). Pacifist was able to revel the contents.
There's was a clue it was a compressed package. One of the right click > Open With options was for a file decompression utility I have installed (The Unarchiver).
Not all installer packages can be opened with the Finder. Download and use the demo version of Pacifist to see inside those packages.
You were just heaven sent... After spending over two days on youtube and google, i finally found the answer! Thanks buddy! IT WORKED!!!
thankyou so much
You can solve this problem without installing any additional software. Here's how...
I wasn't sure at first if my problem with .pkg files the ones described in this thread, but then after reading the whole thread I realized supto_o has exactly the same problem I have.
To clarify:
I have a .pkg file. When I right click there's no "Show Package Contents" in the pop-up menu.
Yet I can run and install the .pkg. I have no idea what files were installed or where they were installed. I need to see the contents of the .pkg file. My blood boils because it's incomprehensible to me why Apple would keep contents of a .pkg file from being inspected.
My solution:
On a lark I tested the file to see if it was just a tar file, and sure enough it is! So try this:
$ tar tzvf yourfile.pkg
If you do you'll see someoutput like:
$ tar tzvf base-crypto-1.10.0-x86_64.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jan staff 44679 Nov 1 19:06 Bom
-rw-r--r-- 1 jan staff 2505614 Nov 1 19:06 Payload
-rw-r--r-- 1 jan staff 87 Nov 1 19:06 Scripts
-rwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 565 Nov 16 16:24 PackageInfo
great! So then extract that, because what you just was was a listing. So run the same command, replacing the "t" with an "x":
$ tar xzvf ../base-crypto-1.10.0-x86_64.pkg
x Bom
x Payload
x Scripts
x PackageInfo
Now you can peek at the file PackageInfo to see where the files are installed:
$ cat PackageInfo
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<pkg-info overwrite-permissions="true" relocatable="false" identifier="org.freedesktop.gstreamer.x86_64.base-crypto" postinstall-action="none" version="1.10.0" format-version="2" generator-version="InstallCmds-554 (15G1108)" install-location="/Library/Frameworks/GStreamer.framework/Versions/1.0" auth="root">
<payload numberOfFiles="63" installKBytes="5953"/>
<bundle-version/>
<upgrade-bundle/>
<update-bundle/>
<atomic-update-bundle/>
<strict-identifier/>
<relocate/>
Hope that helps.
That Helped me thank you
Where is "Show Package Contents"
