.TH "MAKESELF" "1" "2.4.5" .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) utility designed to create self-extractable archives from a directory. .SH "OPTIONS" The following options are supported. .TP 15 .B -v, --version Prints out the makeself version number and exits. .TP .B -h, --help Print out help information. .TP .B --tar-quietly Suppress verbose output from the tar command .TP .B --quiet Do not print any messages other than errors .TP .B --gzip Compress using gzip (default if detected). .TP .B --bzip2 Compress using bzip2. .TP .B --pbzip2 Compress using pbzip2. .TP .B --xz Compress using xz. .TP .B --lzo Compress using lzop. .TP .B --lz4 Compress using lz4. .TP .B --compress Compress using the UNIX 'compress' command. .TP .B --nocomp Do not compress the data. .TP .B --complevel lvl Specify the compression level for gzip,bzip2,pbzui2,xz,lzo or lz4 .TP .B --notemp The archive will create archive_dir in the current directory and uncompress in ./archive_dir. .TP .B --copy Upon extraction, the archive will first copy itself to a temporary directory. .TP .B --append Append more files to an existing makeself archive. The label and startup scripts will then be ignored. .TP .B --current Files will be extracted to the current directory. Both --current and --target dir imply --notemp. .TP .B --target dir Extract directly to a target directory. Directory path can be either absolute or relative. .TP .B --header file Specify location of the header script. .TP .B --cleanup file Specify a cleanup script that executes on interrupt and when finished successfully. .TP .B --follow Follow the symlinks in the archive. .TP .B --noprogress Do not show the progress during the decompression. .TP .B --nox11 Disable automatic spawn of an xterm if running in X11. .TP .B --nowait Do not wait for user input after executing embedded program from an xterm. .TP .B --nomd5 Do not create a MD5 checksum for the archive. .TP .B --nocrc Do not create a CRC32 checksum for the archive. .TP .B --lsm file LSM file describing the package. .B --packaging-date date Use provided string as the packaging date instead of the current date. .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: .TP makeself.sh /home/joe/mysoft mysoft.sh "Joe's Nice Software Package" ./setup .TP Here is also how I created the makeself.run archive which contains the Makeself distribution: .TP makeself.sh --notemp makeself makeself.run "Makeself by Stephane Peter" echo "Makeself has extracted itself" .SH "AUTHORS" Makeself has been written by Stéphane Peter . .BR This man page was originally written by Bartosz Fenski for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others).