Where is PackageMaker? How can i make package installer?

Question

I'm making Development tool which needs Git, Heroku, Python, Ruby.

So I need package installer to check and install git and heroku toolbelt, if those are not exist.

In my guess, I can use package installer in XCode.

But I can not find package installer in /Development/Utility.

Recently, XCode Development directory was moved in XCode package, so I checked it, but still I cannot find package maker.

1) Where is package maker? 2) Can I install heroku and git with Package Maker?

Hagioscope

To get PackageMaker, open the Xcode menu, select "Open Developer Tool -> More Developer Tools...", then download the "Auxiliary Tools for Xcode" package from the list. – Comines

I had to download the Auxiliary Tools for XCode - Late July 2012. Later versions didn't seem to have it. – Cimon

To get PackageMaker, I also downloaded Auxiliary Tools for XCode - Late July 2012. – Oahu

Answer 1

PackageMaker have been deprecated years ago.

1. As a solution you can try to use it by downloading from the Apple downloads,
2. but I recommend you to use command line utility: productbuild.
3. Or you can use 3rd party application: Packages

Luanaluanda

Answer 2

I once had to update some very old code that was packaged with PackageMaker. It was extremely difficult to find on the internet and I eventually only found an old copy stored on the NAS server at my job. No matter where I looked online I could not find a copy.

I archived a copy here: https://github.com/sitting-duck/stuff/tree/master/macOSisWeird/packagemaker

Defeat

Answer 3

It seems like people still look for PackageMaker, I needed it recently

if it can helps, here is direct link from Apple

PackageMaker(AuxTools)

Arsyvarsy

Answer 4

As i found PackageMaker in a very very old project script of mine.. after a short research in the apple docs

Apple no longer maintains the PackageMaker tool, which doesn’t support code signing. Migrate to pkgbuild or productbuild, which incorporate most of the command line options that PackageMaker supported, or use a third-party utility that wraps pkgbuild or productbuild and supports signing.

Westerfield

Answer 5

PackageMaker is deprecated and very old; I believe the most recent update was in 2012.

Nowadays (Summer 2024), I use this free utility called Packages from developer Stéphane Sudre. It's been great.

Screenshot

It allows you to set the installation volume, system requirements, pre & post-installation behavior, and run shell scripts, among many other useful features.

Shuman

Answer 6

Nice software: http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Packages/about.html But when i want to build a package i can not acces the system library this folder is greyd out

Indoeuropean