How do I use the installer from the command line?

[Jethryn Freyman]

Trying to install a .pkg from the command line in single user mode.

I'm using the command "installer -pkg Installer.pkg -target /

The .pkg is on a mounted USB drive. / is also mounted.

When I run the command, the screen scrolls to a new blank line and stays there but nothing happens. The light on my USB indicates no data transfer is happening. I get no output, even if I add -verbose to the command.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Do you have the proper pathname?
/Volumes/USBDRIVE/installer.pkg

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Do you have the proper pathname?
/Volumes/USBDRIVE/installer.pkg

Yes, all the path names, spelling, and capitalisation are correct. The software runs correctly on OS X 10.5 and the program itself is simple.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Is it installable once it's been moved to your boot drive?

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Is it installable once it's been moved to your boot drive?

No, same problem.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

perhaps it's an issue with the installer package itself. Does it carry the right permissions?

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

perhaps it's an issue with the installer package itself. Does it carry the right permissions?

Yeah the package install fine from the Finder.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I'm stumped. Unless I had the package to look at I can't diagnose an issue.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Don't forget to mount both /Volumes/USBDRIVE and / as writable, if installing from the USB drive.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

I'm stumped. Unless I had the package to look at I can't diagnose an issue.

http://code.google.com/p/logkext/
It's logKext, a keylogger.

Don't forget to mount both /Volumes/USBDRIVE and / as writable, if installing from the USB drive.

Both mounted correctly and writable.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Also tried setting the target to /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD and /dev/diskXsX