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DESCRIPTION
Pacifist is an application for Mac OS X that opens up .pkg installer packages, .dmg disk images, .zip, .tar. tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .pax, and .xar archives and more, and lets you extract or install individual files out of them. This is useful if you need to install just one file out of a package instead of the entire package (for example, if you deleted your Preview application and need to reinstall it, but not the whole operating system), or if you just like a little more control over the installation process. Pacifist can also load some archive types over HTTP, in case you want to extract just a single file from a large .zip archive without waiting for the entire archive to download. Finally, Pacifist can examine the kernel extensions installed in your system to let you see what installer installed them, and whether the installer was made by Apple or a third-party.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.6.3:
- Worked around an oversight in Snow Leopard’s Finder that caused drag-and-drop to the Finder not to work properly.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| Pacifist User Reviews (46 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 19 2009 |
DUALIE Highly useful, polished, excellent app. This made it possible to install an older version of Java into Snow Leopard and save a mission-critical application from breaking. It also allowed me to install QuickTime 7 into 10.6.2 and regain the QT pro functionality. Well done! Worth the price in saved time alone.
(Version 2.6.3) | |
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 | Aug 28 2009 |
ICONZ113 how does this differ from file juicer, just curious, this looks pretty good.
(Version 2.6.2) | |
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| Aug 14 2009 |
MACTECHHEAD Geeze what dumb questions below. Why not ask the developer to change rain water into oil too. LOL Pacifist is a must have tool for anyone that knows what it does. The simplicity of being able to extract a single file from an installer package without doing a full install is ingenious or using it to install something on another drive after the installer refused to install it is also very handy. Charles Srstka my hats off to you for this timely update and getting it ready for 10.6 before it even starts to ship. Pacifist is well worth it weight in gold or even platinum and this tool has no competition despite the dumb suggestions above for tools that pale in comparison. Excellent job again Charles Srstka !! My only complaint is no more BootCD. Another tool Charles Srstka made back on 10.4 but discontinued. I hope one day Charles Srstka can see it in his heart to scribble some notes how we can do the same on 10.5 and 10.6 again.
(Version 2.6) | |
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| Aug 13 2009 |
HELMO HASS of course its laways better, the only thing i still dont understand is why having an application which let you inspect packages, hexdump their contents etc etc, still DONT give us the possibility to modify contents when needed, instead of repackaging everything... that could be a very relevant dev tool and gain that little more it's still missing... | |
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 | Aug 13 2009 |
CHARLESS The .pkg format is a read-only format. The entire archive is gzipped (or sometimes bzipped) together, so that the only way to modify it would be to unpack the entire archive, make your changes, then repack the whole thing back up. Also, the .bom format used to list the files in the package is a closed format, meaning that it cannot be edited without reverse engineering, which is liable to break if Apple decides to change the format and thus not a very good idea. So really, the best way to edit a package is to unpack its entire contents, make your changes to the files on the disk, and then use PackageMaker to make a new package.
(Version 2.6) | |
 | Jan 10 2009 |
Will Pacifist - 2.5.2 work with Mac OS X 10.4.11? Thank you very much! You can email me at lynneajean@yahoo.com. Have a good day.
(Version 2.5.2) | |
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| Aug 6 2008 |
TENACITY I can't figure out how to find "Mail" on the installation disk and reinstall just this program. Should I be using some other program?
(Version 2.5.2) | |
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| Mar 3 2008 |
CHARLESS The new version I just uploaded today, version 2.5.2, should fix the crashing problem. If you experience any more problems in the future, please send me an e-mail as it makes things like this much easier to diagnose. Thanks!
(Version 2.5.1) | |
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| Feb 17 2008 |
CHARLESS Could you people who are getting crashes *please* e-mail me with a crash log? I am not getting these crashes when doing any of the things you describe on my machine, and I will not be able to fix anything without more information. Thanks!
(Version 2.5.1) | |
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 | Feb 16 2008 |
JOHN SAWYER CJS Hmm. Tried Pacifist 2.5.1 again, under OS 10.5.2, and it didn't crash the second time. Difference was, the first time, I dragged a package installer to the Pacifist icon, in the Finder, to launch Pacifist, and while Pacifist was scanning the package, it displayed the Pacifist registration dialog. My copy isn't registered (shame on me), so I clicked the "Try it" button, and Pacifist crashed. The second time I tried it, I didn't drag the package to Pacifist to launch it--instead, I opened Pacifist, clicked the "Try It" button, and it didn't crash; then I opened the same installer package I had before, via Pacifist's "Open Package" button, and it opened properly. So, I tried a third variation: launch Pacifist, click its "Try it" button, then drag the package to the Pacifist app icon. It opened the package without crashing. I tried a fourth variation: with Pacifist not launched, I dragged the installer package to the Pacifist application icon, in the Finder. Pacifist launched, displaying its registration dialog; I didn't click the "Try it" button, but instead waited for the scanning process to complete. When it did, Pacifist crashed. So it seems Pacifist 2.5.1, at least under OS 10.5.2, crashes at the end of the package scan, if you launched Pacifist by dragging the package to the Pacifist app icon in the Finder. I tried the crashy opening variation with Pacifist 2.0.1, and it didn't crash, but 2.0.1 doesn't start scanning the package until you dismiss the registration dialog, so maybe that difference will point to a fix.
(Version 2.5.1) | |
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| Feb 16 2008 |
JOHN SAWYER CJS Pacifist 2.5.1 crashes for me too, on authorization, when run under OS 10.5.2. Pacifist 2.0.1 didn't crash when I tried it.
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