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UninstallPKG can be used to reclaim precious disk-space by removing unwanted functionality like unused printer drivers or completely remove applications you no longer use. pkg) and all their installed contents from your Mac. And now that I know what MoneyWorks installs and why, I'm off to look at the demo.UninstallPKG is an application that allows you to completely remove so called 'packages' (file-extension. For me, the Quick Look capabilities alone make this app worth the drive space. You can also open new tabs, search for files, and do many other things-99% of which I'll never use. Its window contains three main tabs: Package Info is similar to the Quick Look window, All Files lets you drill into the files in the package, and All Scripts lets you browse the scripts the installer will run. If you launch the Suspicious Package app, there's tons of detail available. This is the kind of information I like to know before I run an installer, and I was able to get it all from a Quick Look window. It then links to man pages for the component. This script, for instance, reveals why the demo is a package installer: MoneyWorks has a command line component that's installed via script-the script creates a link to the command line tool in the user's /usr/local/bin folder (creating that folder if necessary). Select one on that page, and you can see the content of the script:

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But if I want more detail, I can easily launch Suspicious Package directly from Quick Look…or even explore further within the Quick Look window.įor example, clicking on the 'Runs 5 install scripts' takes me to another page that shows the scripts.

Most of the time, that's all I really want to see before installing a package. This first screen gives a good picture of the package: I can see that it's signed, how/when it was downloaded, how many install scripts it runs, and where the files will be installed. pkg file in Finder and press the Space Bar: (Pacifist's Quick Look plug-in is a prompt-to-install on first launch.) With the plug-in, there's no need to open Suspicious Package to see what the installer is going to do just select the. Like Pacifist, the most useful feature (to me, anyway) of Suspicious Package is that it includes a Quick Look plug-in, which is installed by default.

What I found is a very nicely done app that has replaced Pacifist for my occasional forays into packages. In any event, I wondered if there were any less-expensive alternatives that did the same thing, as I only use an app like this maybe a few times a year.Ī bit of web searching led me to the free Suspicious Package, so I gave it a try (hard to beat free).

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However, it's a $20 application, and somewhere along the line, I lost my registration information (or maybe I hadn't ever registered). In the past, I've used CharleSoft's Pacifist to peer into packages. You can do this the hard way, by drilling into the package in Finder (Right-click and Show Package Contents), but there's an app for that. Typically, a package installer is used for system extensions, or other complex installs that have bits that go into many different places.īeing the curious sort, I wanted to see what the package would install before I installed it. When I downloaded the demo, though, I was a bit surprised to see it was a package installer (.pkg extension). I found a few demos that I wanted to try, including Cognito's MoneyWorks line. Recently, I went looking for a new accounting package for Many Tricks.