macOS installer packages have the .pkg extension which are xar archives, to extract them on Linux we need to download and compile xar from https://code.google.com/archive/p/xar/downloads.
Operating system: Linux Debian 9 / kernel 4.9.0-3-amd64
1. Install dependencies
apt-get install build-essential libxml2-dev libssl1.0-dev zlib1g-dev
2. Download and extract xar-1.5.2.tar.gz
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/xar/xar-1.5.2.tar.gztar -zxvf xar-1.5.2.tar.gz
3. Build and install
cd xar-1.5.2./configuremakemake install
4. Extract files with xar
xar -xvf package_installer.pkg
it does not work:
apt-get install build-essential libxml2-dev libssl1.0-dev zlib1g-dev
E: Unable to locate package libssl1.0-dev
What distribution?
Linux Mint 19.3
my error is ;
“make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.”
I couldn’t find any specific solution.
Hi Bruno and vokhirion,
Make sure that the ./configure is finishing successfully.
In case of an error, you must install the dependencies and retry the ./configure.
You have to use make and make install only after the ./configure was successfully.
My configure did not work. Here is the error:
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checking for openssl/evp.h… yes
checking for OpenSSL_add_all_ciphers in -lcrypto… no
configure: error: Cannot build without libcrypto (OpenSSL)
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I added the OpenSSL package (a higher version than the one recommended because the one recommended could not be found.
I reran the ./configure but got the same error, however, I found the libcrypto file:
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~/xar-1.5.2$ sudo find / -name libcrypto.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so
I added the path to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, but it still would not pick it up. Can you say what I might do to get the configure script to pick up the libcrypto file?
The missing libcrypo stuff is because debian has moved on and/or reorganised the openssl libraries. I found it simplest to go build the old debian packages. You can download them ready-built straight from debian packages repositories too.
libssl1.0.2_1.0.2u-1~deb9u1_i386.deb
libssl1.0-dev_1.0.2u-1~deb9u1_i386.deb
You probably need to uninstall libssl-dev if you have a 1.1-based version (Debian unstable does). Then you get a minor fight with apt that you should win easily.