Coverting a .pkg to a .dmg on MAC

Installing files without using the installer.

Daniel Ellis Research

--

Photo by Austin Schmid on Unsplash

If we have a managed computer, we may not be able to install a file directly using the installer since this requires access to Applications root folder.

DMG

For a DMG file, we can create a secondary “Applications” directory in our $HOME and drag this directly.

--

--

Daniel Ellis Research

Research Software Engineer specialising in High-Performance Computing and Data Visualisation. — PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry and Masters in Theoretical Physics.