To install and work with .dmg
files on Linux, you can follow these steps:
1. Install Required Tools: First, you need to install
dmg2img
andp7zip
. These tools help in converting.dmg
files to.img
files and extracting their contents, respectively.
- For
dmg2img
, use the following command:
sudo apt-get install dmg2img
- For
p7zip
, use:
sudo apt-get install p7zip
2. Convert .dmg to .img: Use
dmg2img
to convert the.dmg
file to an.img
file.
dmg2img yourfile.dmg yourfile.img
3. Mount the .img File: After converting, mount the
.img
file.sudo mount -t hfsplus yourfile.img /mnt
Alternatively, you can use the
darling-dmg
tool, which is a FUSE module for.dmg
files containing an HFS+ filesystem. This tool allows you to directly mount.dmg
files under Linux via FUSE without needing to manually extract and mount them.
To use darling-dmg
, you need to install it and its dependencies, which include a C++11-capable compiler, CMake >3.10, and make
. Once installed, you can mount .dmg
files using:
darling-dmg yourfile.dmg /mnt
These methods should help you work with
.dmg
files on Linux effectively.