makeself (1) Linux Manual Page
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) utility designed to create self-extractable archives from a directory.
OPTIONS
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.
–pbzip2- Compress using pbzip2.
–xz- Compress using xz.
–compress- Compress using the UNIX ‘compress’ command.
–nocomp- Do not compress the data.
–complevel lvl- Specify the compression level for gzip,bzip2,pbzui2 or xz
–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.
–follow- Follow the symlinks in the archive.
–noprogress- Do not show the progress during the decompression.
–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.
–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.
AUTHORS
Makeself has been written by Stéphane Peter <megastep [at] megastep.org>. This man page was originally written by Bartosz Fenski <fenio [at] o2.pl> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others).