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makeself: An utility to generate self-extractable archives.
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).