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) 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).

       Makeself archives  also  include  checksums  for  integrity  self-validation  (CRC  and/or
       MD5/SHA256 checksums).

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.

       --bzip3        Compress using bzip3.

       --pbzip2       Compress using pbzip2.

       --xz           Compress using xz.

       --lzo          Compress using lzop.

       --lz4          Compress using lz4.

       --pigz         Compress using pigz.

       --zstd         Compress using zstd.

       --base64       Encode the archive to ASCII in Base64 format instead of compressing (base64
                      command required).

       --gpg-encrypt  Encrypt the archive using GPG. This will prompt for a password  to  encrypt
                      with.

       --ssl-encrypt  Encrypt  the  archive  using  OpenSSL.  This  will prompt for a password to
                      encrypt with.

       --keep-umask   Keep the umask set to shell default, rather than overriding when  executing
                      the self-extracting archive.

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

       --nocomp       Do not compress the data.

       --complevel lvl
                      Specify  the  compression  level  for gzip, bzip2, pbzip2, xz, zstd, lzo or
                      lz4. Defaults to 9.

       --threads num  Specify the number of threads  to  be  used  by  compressors  that  support
                      parallelization.

       --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).

       --tar-extra opt
                      Append more options to the tar command line.

       --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.

       --help-header file
                      Add a header to the archive's help output.

       --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.

       --nooverwrite  Do not extract the archive if the target directory already exists.

       --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.

       --sha256       Adds a SHA256 checksum for the archive.

       --nocrc        Do not create a CRC32 checksum for the archive.

       --lsm file     LSM file describing the package.

       --license file Append a license file.

       --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 Stephane 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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