{"id":134,"date":"2005-08-14T15:21:37","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T15:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2014-08-04T17:29:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:29:35","slug":"osxpm-how-did-i-ever-do-without-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2005\/08\/14\/osxpm-how-did-i-ever-do-without-it\/","title":{"rendered":"OSXPM &#8211; How did I ever do without it!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Something that I always thought was a bit wrong with OS X was that there seemed to be no way of un-installing a <font face=\"courier new,courier,monospace\">.pkg<\/font> file once you installed it. As a result I tended to avoid software that used <font face=\"courier new,courier,monospace\">.pkg<\/font>s and instead opt for software that used the more standard OS X technique of being entirely encapsulated in a <font face=\"courier new,courier,monospace\">.app<\/font> file with no installer. Not anymore thanks to OSXGNU.org!<\/p>\n<p>OSXGNU.org have created a nice COCA GUI to allow you to easily install and more importantly un-install .pkg files. It is an absolute must have and comes it self as a .pkg and installs it self in the Applications folder under Utilities.<\/p>\n<p>You can download it here: <a title=\"Download Page for OSXPM\" href=\"http:\/\/old.osxgnu.org\/software\/Utils\/OSXGNU\/\">http:\/\/old.osxgnu.org\/software\/Utils\/OSXGNU\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"baseline\">Here is a screenshot from their webpage:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/old.osxgnu.org\/software\/Utils\/OSXGNU\/osxpm.png\" \/><a title=\"Download Page for OSXPM\" href=\"http:\/\/old.osxgnu.org\/software\/Utils\/OSXGNU\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something that I always thought was a bit wrong with OS X was that there seemed to be no way of un-installing a .pkg file once you installed it. As a result I tended to avoid software that used .pkgs and instead opt for software that used the more standard OS X technique of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[26,139,188],"series":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech","tag-os-x","tag-review","tag-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7558,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/7558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}