.PACKAGE File Extension

Resource package file used by various Electronic Arts (EA) games, including The Sims 2, The Sims 3, The Sims Online, Spore, and SimCity 4; stores an archive of one or more game files, often in an XML format; may include 3D models, textures, sounds, and other game data, such as characters and neighborhood information; saved in EA's standard DBPF archive format.

Many PACKAGE files can be edited and repackaged with SimPE, a free editor for The Sims 2. They may also be created and modified with The Sims 2 ContentManager, a program officially released by Electronic Arts for modifying The Sims 2 content.

Archive containing contents of a Linux program and associated files; created with the Autopackage package management system for Linux; installed using the Autopackage installer program.

Autopackage is intended for creating application installers rather than system level installers.