.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: .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 --bzip3 Compress using bzip3. .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 --pigz Compress using pigz. .TP .B --zstd Compress using zstd. .TP .B --base64 Encode the archive to ASCII in Base64 format instead of compressing (base64 command required). .TP .B --gpg-encrypt Encrypt the archive using GPG. This will prompt for a password to encrypt with. .TP .B --ssl-encrypt Encrypt the archive using OpenSSL. This will prompt for a password to encrypt with. .TP .B --keep-umask Keep the umask set to shell default, rather than overriding when executing the self-extracting archive. .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, pbzip2, xz, zstd, lzo or lz4. Defaults to 9. .TP .B --threads num Specify the number of threads to be used by compressors that support parallelization. .TP .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). .TP .B --tar-extra opt Append more options to the tar command line. .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 --help-header file Add a header to the archive's help output. .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 --nooverwrite Do not extract the archive if the target directory already exists. .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 --sha256 Adds a SHA256 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. .TP .B --license file Append a license file. .TP .B --packaging-date date Use provided string as the packaging date instead of the current date. .TP .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 Stephane Peter . .BR This man page was originally written by Bartosz Fenski for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others).