Open DMG File on Linux
How to Install Software from DMG Files on a Mac. 21 September, 2007 by Tom Harrison in mac os x. A.DMG file is a container file commonly used to distribute applications for Mac OS X. Installing software from one of these requires you to mount the image and move its contents to your computer’s “Applications” directory. If you are on a mac, simply install on the VirtualBox, if not, it means you are using a Windows OS, the dmg file won’t help at all. For that, you have to download the macOS Catalina VMDK file. Here is the guide to install macOS Catalina on VirtualBox on windows. Install macOS 10.15 Catalina on VirtualbOx.
DMG files use Hierarchical File System (HFS) as a disk file system format. In order for your Linux machine to open DMG files it needs to support HFS and HFS+. To enable HFS and HFS+ support on your Linux machine you will need to install HFS tools and kernel modules.
Ubuntu
Below are instructions on how to install HFS and HFS+ and mount HFS+ drive on Ubuntu.
1) Install hfsprogs which enables operation with HFS and HFS+ on Linux via ports of mkfs and fsck.
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs
2) Mount or remount the HFS+ drive
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdXY /media/mntpoint
or
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o remount,force,rw /mount/point
3) If the drive is partially corrupted or was unmounted with an error run:
sudo fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sdXY
CentOS
Below are instructions on how to mount HFS or HFS+ in CentOS:
1) Install hfs kernel modules and hfs+ tools:
yum install kmod-hfs
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yum install hfsplus-tools
2) Mount or remount the HFS+ drive
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdXY /media/mntpoint
or
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o remount,force,rw /mount/point
3) If the drive is partially corrupted or was unmounted with an error run:
sudo fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sdXY
With HFS and HFS+ enabled you are ready to mount your DMG file.
Following DMG partitioning schemes were tested to work with instructions below:
- Apple Partition Map
- CD/DVD (partitioned)
- CD/DVD (partitioned) with ISO data
- Hard disk
- Master Boot Record Partition Map
- No partition map
Below is a command to mount an image.dmg file using hfsplus file system:
sudo mount -t hfsplus image.dmg /mnt
Here -t hfsplus tells mount command to mount with HFS+ file system. The /mnt specifies a path to where the image will be mounted.
Install Dmg Linux
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Install Dmg From Command Line
To unmount following command is needed:
Install Dmg Silently
sudo mount -t hfsplus image.dmg /mnt