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.

       --tar-quietly  Suppress verbose output from the tar command

       --quiet        Do not print any messages other than errors

       --gzip         Compress using gzip (default if detected).

       --bzip2        Compress using bzip2.

       --pbzip2       Compress using pbzip2.

       --xz           Compress using xz.

       --lzo          Compress using lzop.

       --lz4          Compress using lz4.

       --compress     Compress using the UNIX 'compress' command.

       --nocomp       Do not compress the data.

       --complevel lvl
                      Specify the compression level for gzip,bzip2,pbzui2,xz,lzo or lz4

       --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.

       --cleanup file Specify  a  cleanup  script  that  executes  on interrupt and when finished
                      successfully.

       --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.  --packaging-date date Use provided string
                      as the packaging date instead of the current date.

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:

       makeself.sh /home/joe/mysoft mysoft.sh "Joe's Nice Software Package" ./setup

       Here  is  also  how  I  created  the  makeself.run  archive  which  contains  the Makeself
       distribution:

       makeself.sh --notemp makeself makeself.run "Makeself by Stephane Peter" echo "Makeself has
       extracted itself"

AUTHORS

       Makeself  has  been written by Stéphane Peter <megastep@megastep.org>.   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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