I've recently downloaded the free Office 365 Education and I tried opening the file downloaded, which is a .pkg file. But nothing is opened. When I double-click on the file, a download icon shows on the Dock then disappears. I mean, this is from Office so surely it wouldn't contain malware or something. I've also tried in the past to open downloaded files but they always turn out this way. :c
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
The .PKG file is obviously just an installer, which downloads the file to be installed and then installs it (compare the Dropboxinstaller, Lightroom, and others). Let it download and install the Education file.
Edit: it may take awhile sometimes to really start the download, and also it my be downloading slow because of size or how stressed the download server is (compare iOS downloads or OSX downloads immediately after announcement).
What happens if you control - click and select open?
Same thing. Installer opens for like half a second and disappears. :c Nothing else.
I don't know, the Installer is downloaded but when I open it, the Installer opens on the dock for a bit then it's gone.
Curious.
Go to this site in your browser: https://www.virustotal.com/en/
then drag the pkg file in there, and let it scan.
What is the result?
another thought:
is there an Office file now in the Applications folder?
Detection ratio: 0/56
MD5 c942d347dc0832790065f8e8bc77e6d5
SHA1 de86a2e290522707b2633762d026f3d90a511864
SHA256 b5d811b1caca819c7a5c833dc98d13d6e03b53885890ed4e80ea544e1ad7d689
196608:xSc6P7wZJn16ud6TDZ24lP19JdMckeeOBlmd9b2Docn:ffJ16qM2IP1/dZkvgTn
File size 8.3 MB ( 8676558 bytes )
File type unknown
xar archive version 1, SHA-1 checksum
| TrID | XAR archive (66.6%) Disk Image (Macintosh) (16.6%) XMill compressed XML (16.6%) |
And all the antivirus results are ticked green. o:
And no there's no Office folder. :c
Thus probably the pkg file is OK.
mmmm, I am without any idea at the moment.
Ah I open the .PKG file and then it takes me to like a normal Finder page. What.
I do not understand how you did this: what is showing is your Home Folder.
Yeah wth.
Mac not opening .pkg files
