Determining what apps are installed on Tiger
Determining what apps are installed on Tiger
- Subject: Determining what apps are installed on Tiger
- From: "Jim Brown" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:54:38 -0800
I am working on a utility tool that is designed to keep some in-house
developed apps up to date. In order to do that the tool needs to
periodically refresh its inventory of installed apps. Version 1 does
this by brute force parsing the /Applications directory and
sub-directories and creating an array of all the application bundles
it finds. Then it compares the array against a text file that contains
the information about the latest versions of the updateable apps. The
two problems with this approach are that the refreshing can take a
long time depending on the cpu type and the number of apps in
/Applications and, any apps that get installed somewhere else other
than /Applications aren't included.
I've tried using lsregister but it has not proven reliable enough to
be used alone as a source for the current suite of installed apps.
Has anyone come up with any other methods of determining all the
applications that are installed on OS X Tiger?
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...Regards
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Jim Brown
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