At a basic level, on newer OS's, the info displayed by pkgutil --pkg-info is just certain data from the plist in /var/db/receipts... It's possible I suppose that pkgutil has special cases that may not be obvious though... -Julian On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:28 AM, hagen wrote:

Thanks Vikram, thats what I wanted to avoid though, hence the question here... Seems more like a workaround than a solution to me...

But thanks for the suggestion, cheers, Hagen.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Vikram Singh <vikram731@gmail.com> wrote:

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If your program is in Objective-C, use NSTask to execute the command and parse the result which is returned. Otherwise, in C,C++, use popen to execute the command, get the handle to the output and parse it.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:27 PM, hagen <noise@dynax.at> wrote:

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Hi, is there an API (or something) to access pkgutil from my Application? I am especially interested in accessing the info provided by pkgutil:

pkgutil --pkg-info [pkgid]

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