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Uninstall programs installed with the Apple Installer
Authored by: alblue on Fri, Dec 21 2007 at 8:55AM PST

Also you can use 'lsbom' in the terminal.

/Library/Receipts shows what's been installed; if you install Foo.pkg, you'll find something like /Library/Receipts/Foo.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom; to find out what it contains, do lsbom /Library/Receipts/Foo.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom.

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