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Someone Finally Addressed Installing Apps on a Mac
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One of the oddest things about macOS is the installation dance.
Key facts
- To be fair, it was relatively streamlined back in 2001 when it became the main way to install applications on the then-new Mac OS X
- Developer Jeff Schumann agrees, so he built a tool that does all these steps for you: EasyDMG
- You download a DMG file, open it to mount a virtual disk, and drag the application from there to your Applications folder
- The next time you need to install software from a DMG file you'll see EasyDMG pop up instead of the virtual disk
Summary
You download a DMG file, open it to mount a virtual disk, and drag the application from there to your Applications folder. Developer Jeff Schumann agrees, so he built a tool that does all these steps for you: EasyDMG. To. (Ironic, sure, but hopefully this is the last time.) After that you need to set EasyDMG as the default application for opening DMG files—there's a button right in the settings that will do this for you. Do that and you're done.