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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  ap-
       pears  as  a  shell script, and can be launched as is. The archive will
       then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an  optional	 arbi-
       trary 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	      Encode  the archive to ASCII in Base64 format instead of
		      compressing (base64 command required).

       --gpg-encrypt  Encrypt the archive using	GPG. This will	prompt	for  a
		      password to encrypt with.

       --ssl-encrypt  Encrypt  the archive using OpenSSL. This will prompt for
		      a	password to encrypt with.

       --keep-umask   Keep the umask set to shell default, rather  than	 over-
		      riding 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.

       --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.

       --notemp	      The  archive  will create	archive_dir in the current di-
		      rectory 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.

       --cleanup file Specify  a cleanup script	that executes on interrupt and
		      when finished successfully.

       --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  al-
		      ready exists.

       --nox11	      Disable automatic	spawn of an xterm if running in	X11.

       --nowait	      Do not wait for user input after executing embedded pro-
		      gram from	an xterm.

       --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.

       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-extract-
	      ing 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 Debian GNU/Linux	distribution (but it may be used by others).

				     2.5.0			   MAKESELF(1)

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