Convert .pkg To .dmg

Apple delivers the macOS installer and applications through the app store since the launch of OS X Lion. The macOS installer has a .app extension when you get it through the official channel. Unlike the macOS DMG installer, which Apple doesn’t provide nowadays, the app version of the macOS install package is not bootable. Hence it is not mountable nor compatible with operating systems like Windows. For some reason, if you want macOS in .DMG or .ISO format, there is a method to convert the .app file. Unfortunately you need a macOS system to convert .app to .dmg to .iso image.

1. Convert Dmg To Pkg Terminal
2. Convert Dmg To Pkg Jamf
3. Convert .dmg To .pkg
4. Convert Pkg To Dmg Mac

1. PKG files can be found on Apple computers running under Mac OS X. These files contain a package of compressed files used for the installation of different software on a Mac. Software contained in a PKG file can be installed by simply double-clicking on the PKG. To view the individual contents, a right-click is needed.
2. Jesus Vigo reviews the steps necessary to create package-based installers to simplify the software deployment process for OS X. A management suite, such as Apple Remote Desktop, simplifies the.

Reasons for converting macOS Mojave or High Sierra .app to .DMG or .ISO

• The macOS in DMG format let to quickly create Install DVDs and bootable USB installers in a few minutes.
• When you convert macOS Install .app to ISO format, you may use it for running macOS on Windows PCs (Hackintosh).
• You can use the DMG file made from the macOS Install app for creating a boot-friendly macOS USB on Windows PC.

To convert DMG to PKG (a macOS installer package file) requires that you first extract the contents of the DMG file and then build a new PKG file using that data. Jun 16, 2015  In order to deploy applications to Mac’s using SCCM 2012, you need to repackage the application into a.cmmac format. I followed the Technet article HERE but figured that everything is easier with pictures. So, I may as well share this. Read moreHow to: Repackage.dmg to.cmmac.

Above all, DMG and ISO files are highly portable; it is easy for anyone to upload and transfer them through the Internet.

Convert macOS Installer .APP to .DMG bootable image

The requirement for running macOS, and a USB Pen Drive for converting the Installer application to bootable ISO or DMG image. The step by step process for converting macOS Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, EI Capitan to the bootable .DMG or .ISO is explained below.

1. First of all, download the full Mac OS installer, and save it in the Applications folder.
2. Next step is to create a bootable USB installer from macOSÂ Install app. I prefer using the macOS Terminal app to create the bootable USB Installer using commands in the screenshots.
3. Now, copy the contents of the macOS USB to a new folder and give it a single word name. We are going to make DMG file on Mac from the newly created folder.
4. Then open the Disk Utility app and then take the “File” menu from the top left corner. Then New Image and Image from folder, and direct the Finder to the macOS file folder.
5. Choose the image format as Hybrid (HFS+/ISO/UDF).
6. The system now starts converting the macOS installer .app bootable .DMG file.

Just in case you find any difficulty, check our video on converting macOS .app to bootable .dmg.

Convert Dmg To Pkg Terminal

How to convert macOS installer to iso format

Convert Dmg To Pkg Jamf

There are several ways to convert macOS .app to .ISO bootable image. Usually one need to do APP to DMG or CDR conversion before making it an ISO file on Mac. The Disk Utility app in macOS previously had an option that allows you to convert DMG to ISO/CDR. You can use Terminal and third-party apps to convert Mac OS installer to ISO if it is in CDR format.

AnyToISO app capable of converting macOS DMG to iso format. The free version of AnyToISO doesn’t support converting dmg files above 850 MB. Hence, you need to either purchase or download (Search AnyToISO Pro 3.9.0 in Google) the PRO version of this app.

In my experience, converting DMG to ISO with AnytoISO takes a lot of space and resources if you’re on macOS machine. The system shows out of space notification even though you have enough space left in the disk. Therefore, it is better to transfer the DMG files to a Windows machine and use freeware like DMGtoISO or AnyBurn for converting. Check our page on burning DMG on windows for freeware tools supporting DMG to ISO conversion.

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Jamf Composer has always had two formats to build installers. The standard pkg and the seemlingly standard (but not) dmg. The pkg option will build a standard pkg installer file, which will install with any system that can install pkg files.

Convert .dmg To .pkg

The dmg option will build a standard dmg disk image file, with the payload of the installer as contents. On its own, however, this dmg cannot do anything. The Jamf Pro management system how ever will understand what to do and how to install the files from the dmg to a system. There are certain features in Jamf Pro which can install and distribute files to user directories and templates (called ‘Fill User Templates’ FUT and ‘Fill Every User’ FEU) which only work with dmg installers in Jamf Pro.

However, Jamf themselves have been recommending to use the standard pkg format in favor of their proprietary use of dmg. Also the Composer application is 32-bit and its future is uncertain.

Luckily there are plenty of great other third-party tools to build installer packages. I cover many of them in my book: Packaging for Apple Administrators

In general, it is probably preferable to re-visit your imaging process and rebuild any installer you still may have in dmg format from scratch. However, in some cases that might not be possible or necessary.

Since the Composer generated dmgs contain all the files for the payload in the proper folder structure you can just use the entire mounted volume as your payload root for pkgbuild. You can easily convert a Composer generated installer dmg to a standard pkg with these commands:

1) mount the dmg:

this will output a bunch of info, the very last bit is the mount point of the dmg /Volumes/Sample (the name will depend on the dmg)

Convert Pkg To Dmg Mac

Firefox download for mac os. 2) build a pkg with the contents of the mounted dmg as a payload:

This will create Sample-1.0.pkg in your current working directory. (I like to include the version in the pkg file name, but that is entirely optional.)

3) cleanup: unmount the dmg

Obviously this will not work well with other dmgs, such as Full System dmgs, or dmgs downloaded from the web, which contain an app that should be dragged to /Applications to install (use quickpkg for those dmgs).