A.dmg file is a copy of a physical disk, such as a CD or DVD, contained in a single file. The file extension means 'Disk Image' and is proprietary to Apple. The operating system treats this file as it would a physical disk. Normally OS X will automatically mount a.
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Usually, you can get a program and then install it on your Mac through App Store easily. However, App Store doesn't contain all applications in the market, which means that you may not find your wanted software in it. At that time, you can download the program from its official website or the third-party online platform. Then you may find that the download is a DMG file. Be confused about what's the dmg file and how to install the program from the DMG file on your Mac? Here's the answer for you.

What's the DMG file?

What to Know A DMG file is an Apple Disk Image file. Open one on a Mac automatically or with HFSExplorer or 7-Zip on Windows. Convert to ISO, ZIP, IMG, and others with AnyToISO, CloudConvert, or DMG2IMG.

The DMG file is a kind of disk image file of macOS and mounted by macOS as it were a hard drive. It can contain application installers and is often used to distribute software over the Internet on Mac.

Install Programs from DMG Files on Mac

Open the DMG File

You can open the DMG file by double clicks or Disk Image Mounter feature (from the sub-menu of Open With) in its right-click menu. Or you can use Attach feature of iSunshare BitLocker Genius to access the DMG file.

Tips:iSunshare BitLocker Genius also has the powerful BitLocker decryption feature which can make you unlock the BitLocker drive on your Mac easily.

Drag the Program to the Applications Folder

If there is an Applications folder shortcut in the opened DMG file, you can drag the program to the shortcut directly.

If you can't find the shortcut, you need to drag the program to the Applications folder in the Finder.

After dropping the program to the Applications folder, a small box written with copying items will be shown.

When the installation is finished, you can right click the DMG file and then choose Eject option to exit it. You can also delete the DMG file by moving it to trash.

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DMG is a file of Apple Disk Image. The Apple Disk Images are disk image files commonly used by the Mac OS X operating system. When opened, an Apple disk image is 'mounted' as a volume within the Finder. Several Apple proprietary disk image formats can be used to create these images, including the Universal Disk Image Format (UDIF) and the New Disk Image Format (NDIF). Apple disk images usually have the .dmg file extension.

Apple disk images allow secure password protection as well as file compression and hence serves both security and file distribution functions; they are most commonly used to distribute software over the Internet.

Universal Disk Image Format (UDIF) is the native disk image format for Mac OS X. Disk images in this format typically have a .dmg extension. New Disk Image Format (NDIF) was the previous default disk image format in Mac OS 9, and disk images with this format generally have a .img (not to be confused with raw .img disk image files) or .smi file extension. Files with the .smi extension are actually applications that mount an embedded disk image, thus a 'Self Mounting Image', and are intended only for Mac OS 9 and earlier. A previous version of the format, intended only for floppy disk images, is usually referred to as 'Disk Copy 4.2' format, after the version of the Disk Copy utility that was used to handle these images. A similar format that supported compression of floppy disk images is called DART. Apple disk image files are published with a MIME type of application/x-apple-diskimage.

Different file systems can be contained inside these disk images, and there is also support for creating hybrid optical media images that contain multiple file systems. Some of the file systems supported include Hierarchical File System (HFS), HFS Plus, File Allocation Table (FAT), ISO9660 and Universal Disk Format (UDF).

Open/Extract DMG File on Windows

Easy 7-Zip opens/extracts DMG file easily on Windows. The Easy 7-Zip was developed based on 7-Zip. 7-Zip is a famous open source file archiver. The Easy 7-Zip is an easy-to-use version of 7-Zip. The open source freeware keeps all features of 7-Zip and adds a few useful features that makes the software more user-friendly.

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Easy 7-Zip works on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/2008/2003/XP/2000 (both 32-bit and 64-bit compatible).

Free Download Easy 7-Zip
Install Easy 7-Zip by step-by-step instructions
The installation will associate DMG with Easy 7-Zip automatically
Double-click on DMG file to open DMG file with Easy 7-Zip

DMG

Extract

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Alternatively, Right-click on DMG file on Windows Explorer

Extract files...

Extract Here

Extract to 'folder'

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Done

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You can install and use other alternative freeware that opens/extracts DMG file without burning the DMG file to disc. For example:

Free DMG Extractor
HFSExplorer
PeaZip

Open/Extract DMG File on Mac

B1 Free Archiver opens/extracts DMG file on Mac. B1 Free Archiver is a free software for creating archive folder and extracting archive file. B1 Archiver works on all platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. The freeware supports most popular formats including DMG.

B1 Free Archiver is compatible with:

Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Alternative freeware that opens/extracts DMG file on Mac.

Apple Disk Utility
Keka
GUI Tar

Open/Extract DMG File on Linux

You can use command mount to mount DMG file as a virtual drive.

First, you must login as a root user, and then create a directory for DMG image

# mkdir -p /mnt/macimage

Use mount command as follows to mount DMG file called image.dmg:

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# mount -o loop -t hfsplus image.dmg /mnt/macimage

If the DMG is HFS file system, use:

# mount -o loop -t hfs image.dmg /mnt/macimage

Change directory to list files stored inside an DMG image:

# cd /mnt/macimage
# ls -l

Unmount the DMG image, type:

# umount /mnt/macimage

Alternatively, you can use p7zip to extract the DMG file. p7zip is the Unix command-line port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that a