Name
installer
Synopsis
installeroptions
-pkgpkgpath
-targetvolpath
Installs standard Mac OS X package files from the command line.
install
is an alternative to the
Installer.app
GUI application.
Options
-
-allow
Install over an existing version of the software, even when the version being installed is older. The package must have special support for this option.
-
-config
Send the list of command-line arguments, formatted in
plist
XML, to standard output without performing the installation. If you direct the output to a file, you can use that file with the-file
option to perform multiple identical installations.-
-dumplog
Log installer’s messages to standard output.
-
-file
pathname
Read arguments from file
pathname
. The file needs to be a product of the-config
option or a file of the same format.-
-help
Display a help screen, and then exit.
-
-lang
language
Identify
language
(specified in ISO format) as the default language of the target system. Used only with OS installations.-
-listiso
Display the languages
installer
recognizes, in ISO format.-
-pkginfo
List the packages to be installed without performing the installation. Metapackages contain multiple subpackages; this option lists those subpackages as well.
-
-plist
When used with
-pkginfo
and-volinfo
, format the output intoplist
XML.-
-verbose
Print more package and volume information. Used with
-pkginfo
and-volinfo
.-
-verboseR
Print more package and volume information, formatted for parsing. Used with
-pkginfo
and-volinfo
.-
-vers
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