MAKESELF(1) General Commands Manual MAKESELF(1) NAME makeself - An utility to generate self-extractable archives. SYNTAX makeself [options] archive_dir file_name label [startup_script] [args] DESCRIPTION This program is a free (GPL) shell utility designed to create self-ex- tractable compressed archives from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script, and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncom- press itself to a temporary directory and an optional arbitrary command will be executed (for example an installation script). Makeself archives also include checksums for integrity self-validation (CRC and/or MD5/SHA256 checksums). OPTIONS The following options are supported: -v, --version Prints out the makeself version number and exits. -h, --help Print out help information. --tar-quietly Suppress verbose output from the tar command --quiet Do not print any messages other than errors --gzip Compress using gzip (default if detected). --bzip2 Compress using bzip2. --bzip3 Compress using bzip3. --pbzip2 Compress using pbzip2. --xz Compress using xz. --lzo Compress using lzop. --lz4 Compress using lz4. --pigz Compress using pigz. --zstd Compress using zstd. --base64 Base64-encode the final compressed archive (base64 command required). This runs after compression and can be combined with any compressor. --gpg-encrypt Encrypt the archive using GPG. This will prompt for a pass- word to encrypt with. --gpg-asymmetric-encrypt-sign Asymmetrically encrypt and sign the archive using GPG. --gpg-extra opt Append more options to the gpg command line. --ssl-encrypt Encrypt the archive using OpenSSL. This will prompt for a password to encrypt with. --ssl-passwd pass Use the given password to encrypt the data using OpenSSL. --ssl-pass-src src Use the given src as the source of password to encrypt the data using OpenSSL. --ssl-no-md Do not use "-md" option (for older OpenSSL). --keep-umask Keep the umask set to shell default, rather than overriding when executing the self-extracting archive. --compress Compress using the UNIX 'compress' command. --nocomp Do not compress the data. --complevel lvl Specify the compression level for gzip, bzip2, pbzip2, xz, zstd, lzo or lz4. Defaults to 9. --comp-extra opt Append more options to the compressor's command line. --threads num Specify the number of threads to be used by compressors that support parallelization. --tar-format opt Specify the tar archive format (default is ustar); you may use any value accepted by your tar command (such as posix, v7, etc). --tar-extra opt Append more options to the tar command line. --untar-extra opt Append more options when extracting the tar archive. --notemp The archive will create archive_dir in the current directory and uncompress in ./archive_dir. --copy Upon extraction, the archive will first copy itself to a temporary directory. --append Append more files to an existing makeself archive. The label and startup scripts will then be ignored. --current Files will be extracted to the current directory. Both --current and --target dir imply --notemp. --target dir Extract directly to a target directory. Directory path can be either absolute or relative. --header file Specify location of the header script. --help-header file Add a header to the archive's help output. --preextract file Specify a pre-extraction script. --cleanup file Specify a cleanup script that executes on interrupt and when finished successfully. --cleanup-args args Arguments to the cleanup script (wrap in quotes to provide multiple arguments). --follow Follow the symlinks in the archive. --noprogress Do not show the progress during the decompression. --nooverwrite Do not extract the archive if the target directory already exists. --nox11 Disable automatic spawn of an xterm if running in X11. --nowait Do not wait for user input after executing embedded program from an xterm. --nochown Do not give the target folder to the current user. --chown Give the target folder to the current user recursively. --nomd5 Do not create a MD5 checksum for the archive. --sha256 Adds a SHA256 checksum for the archive. --nocrc Do not create a CRC32 checksum for the archive. --lsm file LSM file describing the package. --license file Append a license file. --packaging-date date Use provided string as the packaging date instead of the current date. --needroot Require root permissions for extraction. --export-conf Export configuration variables to the startup script. ENVIRONMENT SETUP_NOCHECK If set to 1, then checksum validation will be skipped. EXAMPLES Here is an example, assuming the user has a package image stored in a /home/joe/mysoft, and he wants to generate a self-extracting package named mysoft.sh, which will launch the "setup" script initially stored in /home/joe/mysoft: makeself.sh /home/joe/mysoft mysoft.sh "Joe's Nice Software Package" ./setup Here is also how I created the makeself.run archive which contains the Makeself distribution: makeself.sh --notemp makeself makeself.run "Makeself by Stephane Peter" echo "Makeself has extracted itself" AUTHORS Makeself has been written by Stephane Peter <megastep@megastep.org>. This man page was originally written by Bartosz Fenski <fenio@o2.pl> for the De- bian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others). 2.7.1 MAKESELF(1)
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