The macOS installer is quick and easy to use, but you can find out more info on what happens during installations by checking its built-in logs. Here's how to look at them. macOS installer files are ...

If you happen to be faced with a package (.pkg) or meta-package (.mpkg) file and want to inspect its contents before you initiate an install, there’s a nifty OS X utility that can dump out the files ...

Question: in my seemingly never-ending (and futile) quest to get more than one computer on the internet at the same time in my house, I've acquired a USB-connecting wireless LAN adapter. I'm hoping to ...

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If you use the Show Package Contents contextual menu command to delve into the contents of a installer pkg file, you will eventually locate files that have the same name as the pkg file itself, except ...

As you’ve probably noticed, when there’s a software update from Apple, we don’t recommend allowing the Software Update program simply to do its work automatically. Rather, we prefer a more manual ...

I have a .pkg file that continually crashes the Installer.app when double clicked. Is there a free way to extract the files from a package so that I can ...

Suspicious Package is a free Quick Look plug-in which allows you to inspect package files (.pkg) on the Mac. Package files on the Mac are awesome, because they can install all of the various files ...