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Introduction
DMG2IMG is an Apple's compressed dmg to standard (hfsplus) image disk file convert tool. It is derived from dmg2iso v0.2c by vu1tur.
It will allow you to convert a DMG file into an IMG file that can be mounted as described in ManageDiscImages.
Website: http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/
Installation Instructions
The tool is in the Universe repository for Lucid:
sudo apt-get install dmg2img
Install from .deb on Karmic
The Lucid package works fine with Karmic. Download and install it from here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/dmg2img.
Install from PPA
There is also a PPA at https://launchpad.net/~rzr/+archive/ppa.
Install from source
The following assumes the latest version is 1.6.2, so check if a more recent version is available here first. To download, compile and install, open an terminal and type:
wget http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/download.pl?dmg2img-1.6.2.tar.gz -O dmg2img-1.6.2.tar.gz tar -xvf dmg2img-1.6.2.tar.gz sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev cd dmg2img-1.6.2 make sudo make install
You can now remove the installation files if you want to tidy up:
rm dmg2img-1.6.2.tar.gz rm -R dmg2img-1.6.2
Getting Started With DMG2IMG
You can now convert .dmg files to .img by typing:
dmg2img filename.dmg
This will create a file called filename.img