Way back in 2004—when Mac Gems was in its infancy—I reviewed Pacifist 1.6, a nifty utility for working with Mac OS X installer packages (.pkg and .mpkg files). If you’ve ever wondered what an ...

If reinstalling software feels repetitive, these tools have some ideas.

Ever had a source package fail to build due to a missing file? If so, apt-file, a tool that searches online repositories for a specific file, may be the answer. Occasionally, when building a package ...

The macOS installer is quick and easy to use, but you can find out more info on what happens during installations by checking its built-in logs. Here's how to look at them. macOS installer files are ...

The popular, open source Nuget Package Management system makes quick work of installing, configuring and updating third-party components in.NET projects. Welcome to the new Open Source .NET column at ...

Replace RPMS-TO-SEARCH with the names of the RPM files to search, and replace FILE-TO-SEARCH-FOR with the name of the file to search for. The --filesbypkg option tells the rpm command to output the ...