OCS Inventory agent installation

[beckyboo]

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone could give me a beginners guide to installing Mac software.
I am a Windows user and unlike Macs I am used to double clicking to launch setup programs.

I have this small piece of software that I need to run on one (our only) Mac in the company running Tiger 10.4, I've downloaded it, extracted it but it seems to do nothing.

codejanitor OCS Mac Agent is the file location and it consists of:

ocs_mac_agent.dmg, do I just double click this and it will do the rest as it would in Windows?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Nethfel]

Hi!

A .dmg file is a disk image file, when you double click it, it will mount similar to a drive. You can then open the mounted image and install the software contained in it.

Now, I haven't installed OCS, but you will be faced with one of a few possibilities:

1) It's a simple OSX install where you just drag the application from the .dmg into the Applications folder - my guess is this is not what will be required because I know OCS is a tool that runs in the background to collect system information

2) It's still simple, but more like a Windows install - there will be a pkg file in it that you can double click and it will then follow through an install process - due to the nature of OCS, it will most likely ask for your password to install

3) It's a bit more of a pain in the butt because it wants to be installed like a Unix client and will require you to copy the contents of the .dmg onto your hard drive and decompress and possibly run an installer script of some sort. If this is the case, hopefully there will be a readme to give you the details.