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Extracting apple .pkg files on Linux
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In order to extract such a package following software is requried:

  • 7zip for general .pkg

  • pbzx for Payload files Github Source

    • xar Github Source
      • fix
      • download optional dependency libbzip2 / bzip2 and enable it in xar compilation configuration. This enables use or xar for extracting .pkg
    • compile with gcc pbzx.c -o pbzx -llzma -lxar

After all is installed and working, extract .pkg with 7zip, go into extracted directory and go into desired directory containing payload file. Then run pbzx -n /path/to/file | cpio -i in order to extract Payload file

NOTE: Bom files are quite possibly bzip2 compressed / encoded.

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