| .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 <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). |
