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.TH "MAKESELF" "1" "2.5.0"
.SH "NAME"
makeself \- An utility to generate self-extractable archives.
.SH "SYNTAX"
.B makeself [\fIoptions\fP] archive_dir file_name label
.B [\fIstartup_script\fP] [\fIargs\fP]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This program is a free (GPL) shell utility designed to create self-extractable
compressed archives 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 optional arbitrary
command will be executed (for example an installation script).
.TP
Makeself archives also include checksums for integrity self-validation (CRC and/or MD5/SHA256 checksums).
.SH "OPTIONS"
The following options are supported:
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.B -v, --version
Prints out the makeself version number and exits.
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.B -h, --help
Print out help information.
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.B --tar-quietly
Suppress verbose output from the tar command
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.B --quiet
Do not print any messages other than errors
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.B --gzip
Compress using gzip (default if detected).
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.B --bzip2
Compress using bzip2.
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.B --bzip3
Compress using bzip3.
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.B --pbzip2
Compress using pbzip2.
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.B --xz
Compress using xz.
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.B --lzo
Compress using lzop.
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.B --lz4
Compress using lz4.
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.B --pigz
Compress using pigz.
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.B --zstd
Compress using zstd.
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.B --base64
Encode the archive to ASCII in Base64 format instead of compressing (base64 command required).
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.B --gpg-encrypt
Encrypt the archive using GPG. This will prompt for a password to encrypt with.
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.B --ssl-encrypt
Encrypt the archive using OpenSSL. This will prompt for a password to encrypt with.
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.B --keep-umask
Keep the umask set to shell default, rather than overriding when executing the self-extracting archive.
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.B --compress
Compress using the UNIX 'compress' command.
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.B --nocomp
Do not compress the data.
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.B --complevel lvl
Specify the compression level for gzip, bzip2, pbzip2, xz, zstd, lzo or lz4. Defaults to 9.
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.B --threads num
Specify the number of threads to be used by compressors that support parallelization.
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.B --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).
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.B --tar-extra opt
Append more options to the tar command line.
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.B --notemp
The archive will create archive_dir in the current directory and
uncompress in ./archive_dir.
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.B --copy
Upon extraction, the archive will first copy itself to a temporary directory.
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.B --append
Append more files to an existing makeself archive. The label and startup scripts will then be ignored.
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.B --current
Files will be extracted to the current directory. Both --current and --target dir imply --notemp.
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.B --target dir
Extract directly to a target directory. Directory path can be either absolute or relative.
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.B --header file
Specify location of the header script.
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.B --help-header file
Add a header to the archive's help output.
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.B --cleanup file
Specify a cleanup script that executes on interrupt and when finished successfully.
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.B --follow
Follow the symlinks in the archive.
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.B --noprogress
Do not show the progress during the decompression.
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.B --nooverwrite
Do not extract the archive if the target directory already exists.
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.B --nox11
Disable automatic spawn of an xterm if running in X11.
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.B --nowait
Do not wait for user input after executing embedded program from an xterm.
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.B --nomd5
Do not create a MD5 checksum for the archive.
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.B --sha256
Adds a SHA256 checksum for the archive.
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.B --nocrc
Do not create a CRC32 checksum for the archive.
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.B --lsm file
LSM file describing the package.
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.B --license file
Append a license file.
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.B --packaging-date date
Use provided string as the packaging date instead of the current date.
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.SH "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:
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makeself.sh /home/joe/mysoft mysoft.sh "Joe's Nice Software Package" ./setup
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Here is also how I created the makeself.run archive which contains the Makeself distribution:
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makeself.sh --notemp makeself makeself.run "Makeself by Stephane Peter" echo "Makeself has extracted itself"
.SH "AUTHORS"
Makeself has been written by Stephane Peter <megastep@megastep.org>.
.BR
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).
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