makeself
makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable compressed TAR archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script, and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an arbitrary command will be executed (for example, an installation script). This is pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor in the Windows world.
| Tags | Archiving Packaging Compression Software Distribution Tools Installation/Setup |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Mac OS X AIX BSD HP-UX IRIX Linux SCO Solaris |
| Implementation | Unix Shell |
Recent releases
- 04 Jan 2008 17:31
Changes: Many internal bugfixes and additional safety checks were added. This release adds --encrypt for symmetric encryption through GPG. It allows extraction to run asynchronously.
- 03 Jun 2005 03:31
Changes: A few minor bugfixes and improvements to the way files are archived and extracted were made in this version.
- 02 May 2004 05:13
Changes: Bugs with the command line when spawning terminals were fixed. --tar and --noexec options were added for archives, and --nomd5 and --nocrc options were included to avoid creating checksums in archives. A man page was included.
- 04 Jul 2003 19:26
Changes: This release adds some minor bugfixes. Makeself now complies with the latest POSIX spec, to avoid problems on newer Linux distributions.
- 08 Mar 2003 02:01
Changes: This version fixes some major issues with standard Unix compression (the "compress" command). There are also more bugfixes and clean-ups related to extraction and verification of checksums.
