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How to open a deb file on a mac?
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Do you mean purely "open" them, rather than "install" them? A .deb file is a packaged software installer for Debian Linux (and its derivatives.) If you want to install it, you're out of luck, I don't know of any way to install .deb packages on OS X.
If all you want to do is expand the package to look inside, try dpkg-deb, specifically the -x command-line option.
If all you want to do is expand the package to look inside, try dpkg-deb, specifically the -x command-line option.
Ye i am just trying to expand the package. I couldn't open the link u attached, but in terminal i cd to the location of the file, and I typed in: dpkg-deb -x filename.deb
but it gives me command not found error, am I entering it in wrong?
Hey i'm having the same problem!! Could you possible tell me what application your using to open it?
Cheers
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I was wondering if ar was installed on macOS and apparently so if you have Xcode installed. That is the utility used in packing a Debian .deb file, the first hit on Google with the question "extract .deb on mac os".
https://ericwilson.io/snippets/2015/10/11/how-to-unpack-a-deb-file-on-mac-os-x-without-installing-it
Ahh a lovely necro post in addition to the lazy search habits.
https://ericwilson.io/snippets/2015/10/11/how-to-unpack-a-deb-file-on-mac-os-x-without-installing-it
Ahh a lovely necro post in addition to the lazy search habits.
Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but I ran across a .deb file on SourceForge, downloaded it, opened it with the Unarchiver, located the appropriate file -- which is a Unix file of some kind -- Control-clicked it to open it with WidgetMaker X (looking for some data links).
.... but Gatekeeper says no.
Any ideas?
.... but Gatekeeper says no.
Any ideas?