Pacifist 2,6,4 with serial

Pacifist 2.6.4

THIS WILL OPEN ANYTHING THAT YOUR MAC WON'T LET YOU OPEN AND WILL FIX ANYTHING ON YOUR MACINTOSH



What is Pacifist?

Pacifist is a Cocoa application that opens up .pkg installer packages and lets you install or extract individual files out of them. It is also able to open a variety of other formats, including .mpkg metapackages, .zip archives, .dmg disk images, and .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .cpio, .cpio.gz, .cpio.bz2, and .xar archives.





This is useful, for instance, if an application which is installed by the operating system becomes damaged and needs to be reinstalled without the hassle of reinstalling all of Mac OS X. Pacifist is also able to verify existing installations and find missing or altered files*, and Pacifist can also examine the kernel extensions installed in your system to let you see what installer installed them, and whether the installer was made by Apple or a third-party.








Why is this useful?

Pacifist can come in handy if you need to install just one file out of a package instead of the entire package. For example, if your copy of Mail or iChat gets damaged and you need to reinstall it, but don’t want to go to the trouble of reinstalling the entire operating system, you can use Pacifist to extract only what you need from the install packages. Pacifist can also be used instead of the normal Installer, which can be helpful if you experience bugs in the Installer that mess up your symbolic links, or if you just like a little more control over the installation process.




Where does Pacifist’s name come from?

Pacifist gets its name from the command-line tool “pax”, which is the tool that Installer.app uses to install files out of the compressed archives in the .pkg files. At the time Pacifist was written, the pax tool was not nearly as peaceful as its name implied, having a tendency to march along in a most belligerent manner, destroying symlinks and folder permissions that lie in its path. As a result, one of Pacifist’s original goals was to tame pax, using it in a way that caused it to be more “peaceful” to existing files on your hard disk. Apple has greatly improved its installer and its use of the pax tool since those days, and Pacifist's focus has now changed to examining .pkg packages and other supported archive types and extracting individual files from them.




What are the system requirements for Pacifist?

Pacifist requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher.