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makeself

makeself(1)						      General Commands Manual						       makeself(1)

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.

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

       --nocomp       Do not compress the data.

       --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. Implies --notemp.

       --header file  Specify location of the header script.

       --follow       Follow the symlinks in the archive.

       --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 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).

								       2.1.4							       makeself(1)

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