Convert Pkg To Dmg

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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. 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.pkg file must be signed using 'Developer ID Installer' certificate, obtained from an Apple Developer account. Only.pkg files may be used to upload macOS LOB apps to Microsoft Intune. However, conversion of other formats, such as.dmg to.pkg is supported.

This tutorial is going to show you how to create or restore Mac OS X dmg file into a USB flash disk. In other case, we can create Mac OS X bootable flash disk with this method. I am using Trans Mac version 11.1 on this tutorial. Trans Mac is a Windows application that can be used to restore dmg files and create Mac bootable USB disk.

TransMac features:

  • Open Mac format disk drives, flash drives, CD/DVD/Blu-ray media, dmg, dmgpart, sparseimage and sparsebundle files.
  • Copy files to Mac disks and dmg images.
  • Format for Mac and restore disks and flash drives.
  • Create, compress and expand (convert to iso) dmg files.
  • Built in media burner functionality to burn ISO and dmg files directly to CD/DVD/Blu-Ray.
  • Read Mac multi

1. Download TransMac from the official website. You may try this software for 14 days for free

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2. Install TransMac on Windows

3. Insert USB disk and then Open TransMac. Right click onthe USB Flash disk and select Format Disk for Mac. Please note that this command will erase the entire disk and format it.

4. Once finished, right click on the usb disk again and select Restore with Disk Image

Browse your DMG file and press OK.

If you use pkgutil to expand the InstallMacOSX.pkg it opens to three items, the Distribution file, InstallMacOSX.pkg and Resources. You can alter the Distribution file to ignore the supported platform check, see below.


Creating the Install OS X El Capitan.app on a mac that came with a newer OS than El Capitan.


Download the InstallMacOSX.dmg from Section 4 of How To Upgrade To El Capitan

Double-click to open InstallMacOSX.dmg to Install MacOSX.pkg.

Drag InstallMacOSX.pkg to the Desktop.


Open Terminal, enter the text




A folder will be created on the Desktop after a while with the contents of the .pkg file.

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In there you will see an item called Distribution, Control-click on that and select Open With

go to Other and select Text Edit.


Ata chapters and subchapters pdf viewer. When the file opens scroll down to the section that reads,



function isSupportedPlatform(){


type in at the end return true; so it now reads as,



function isSupportedPlatform(){return true;


Now click Save and close the document.


Go back to Terminal and enter the text,



press Return, after several minutes, be patient, (check to see if the prompt has returned to Terminal) a new package will be created on the Desktop.


When created double-click on that and an installation window will open where you will now convert the

new InstallElCapitan.pkg to the Install OS X El Capitan.app which will be placed in your Applications folder.


You can now create a bootable USB using the install app and createinstallmedia,

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If you have the time I would be grateful if you could give this a trial, it works here on my mac, but I would like confirmation from yourself or any others reading this that the procedure works on macs that came with macOS Sierra or newer pre-installed. Oh and tell me if my description of the procedure is easy to follow and understand.



Convert Pkg To Dmg

Jan 15, 2020 12:58 AM