Suspicious Package for Mac
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Suspicious Package overview
With Suspicious Package, you can find out important information about those package files you download. Do you know what files that OS X Installer package actually installs?... Do you know what scripts it runs during installation, and what they do?... Do you know who the package really came from?... Maybe you're quite literally suspicious of a package you've downloaded. Or perhaps you're just curious about what some package does. Or maybe you want to find out after the fact exactly what files a package scattered across your computer. Whatever the reason, Suspicious Package allows you to see inside an installer package. (And it's completely free.)
Suspicious Package is now actually both an OS X application,... and a plug-in for the Quick Look feature of OS X.
What's new in version 4.6.2
New
- For the uncommon — but not, unfortunately, unheard of — case where a package contains another package in its payload, you can now select the inner package on the All Files tab and use File > Open Item With Suspicious Package to examine it. Note that, as with other files that are inspectable with File > Open Item With, this works by automatically exporting the package to a temporary folder for the outer package; as such, you'll want to keep the window for the outer package open until you're done examining the inner one.
- The spkg command line tool has a new ‑‑json-manifest (-J) option: this works like the existing ‑‑manifest option, but instead of producing a directory structure, it writes the entire diffable manifest into a single JSON-format file at the given path. This is less suitable for human comparison, but may be more helpful for ingesting the manifest into other tools.
Suspicious Package for Mac
Free
In English
Version 4.6.2
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Dec 16, 2022
Version: 4.3.1
Unfortunately the new version is for Big Sur or higher.
But I highly recommend this app for anyone "curious" or "paranoid"
You can see inside installers and make your digital life a bit more secure.
Mar 17, 2022
Version: 4.2
...it is very complete; what happens is that I have little need to use it ...
Jul 11, 2020
Version: 3.5.3
Very impressed. Software is exceptionally well designed, easy to use, and teaches the user about how installer packages are created though Suspicious Package's use. While I love Pacifist, Suspicious Package (SP) has become my go-to and I set it as my default '.pkg' file opener.
It would be awesome if SP could have a setting where you drag your favorite anti-virus software into an image well and it would then offer the ability to open whatever package you are analyzing into that AV software whenever you run SP. (sub launch with file)
May 8, 2019
Version: 3.4.1
Essential tool to see what sorts of sneaky sludge an app may want to stuff into your system.
Oct 8, 2018
Version: 3.3.2
Love this app. Very convenient way to figure out what will be installed by a .pkg beforehand. I mostly use it through QuickLook, but the app itself provides additional features that are quite handy too.
