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Application software. Applications, or apps, for short, is software that runs on the computer.

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How can I open a .pkg file manually?

Some applications come in .pkg files, and ask for you administrator password, even if all they do is copy the binary to /Applications. … I like to have my applications in ~/Applications, and I do not like to give administrative permissions to anything that is not from the mothership. …
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