makeself(1)

NAME

makeself - An utility to generate self-extractable archives.

makeself [options] archive_dir file_name label [startup_script] [args]

This program is a free (GPL) utility designed to create selfextractable archives from a directory.

The following options are supported.

-v, --version Prints out the makeself version number and exits.

-h, --help Print out help information.

--gzip Compress using gzip (default if detected).

--bzip2 Compress using bzip2.

--compress Compress using the UNIX 'compress' command.

--nocomp Do not compress the data.

--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.: Implies --notemp.
--header file Specify location of the header script.
--follow Follow the symlinks in the archive.
--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.
--nocrc Do not create a CRC32 checksum for the archive.
--lsm file LSM file describing the package.

Makeself has been written by Stéphane 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).