Is it possible to execute the package (located in FTP) from terminal of Mac

Shell script: curl & installer

If you can host the package on a web site, the installation can be reduced to the following two commands.

1. Download the file to the local computer:

   /usr/bin/curl https://www.example.com/mypackage.pkg > /tmp/mypackage.pkg
   

2. Install the downloaded file:

   /usr/sbin/installer -pkg /tmp/mypackage.pkg -target /
   

You can combine these commands in a text file called install-mypackage.command:

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/curl https://www.example.com/mypackage.pkg > /tmp/mypackage.pkg
/usr/sbin/installer -pkg /tmp/mypackage.pkg -target /
/bin/rm /tmp/mypackage.pkg

When the .command file is opened by the user, the package will be downloaded and installed.

This approach assumes:

• The software is distributed as a flat .pkg file.
• You can host the package somewhere privately.

Using sftp instead of curl

If your files are hosted on a Secure File Transfer Protocol (sftp) server, use the sftp client. To script the client, use a batch file or follow answers to Single Line sftp from Terminal.

Improvements

Please note this script has no error checking. Consider this script a starting point for your own script.

You could add a password to your web site and then use a URL with the credentials embedded, such as https://username:[email protected]/mypackage.pkg.

Given you have ssh access to the computers, you could run this script or commands remotely.