How to Install and Uninstall makeself Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "makeself" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install makeself on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                makeself
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "makeself" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall makeself on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                makeself
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the makeself package on Kali Linux

Package: makeself
Version: 2.5.0-1
Installed-Size: 63
Maintainer: Bartosz Fenski
Architecture: all
Suggests: bzip2
Size: 24052
SHA256: ae075fc456c1da2f287481821475131eca369e51a8dea674281d292c2c2d9d91
SHA1: c0de74bd1af35d7dffb0d21f94dc4159d90fe492
MD5sum: 71febcc77c271a80b58ef1a478c5dc2a
Description: utility to generate self-extractable archives
makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable
archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script
(many of those have a .run suffix), 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). This is pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip
Self-Extractor in the Windows world. Makeself archives also include
checksums for integrity self-validation (CRC and/or MD5 checksums).
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The makeself script itself is used only to create the archives from a
directory of files. The resultant archive is actually a compressed
(using gzip, bzip2, or compress) TAR archive, with a small shell script
stub at the beginning. This small stub performs all the steps of
extracting the files, running the embedded command, and removing the
temporary files when it's all over. All what the user has to do to
install the software contained in such an archive is to "run" the
archive, i.e. sh nice-software.run. It is recommended to use the "run" (which
was introduced by some Makeself archives released by Loki Software) or
"sh" suffix for such archives not to confuse the users, since they
actually are shell scripts (with quite a lot of binary data attached
to it though!).
Description-md5:
Homepage: http://www.megastep.org/makeself/
Tag: implemented-in::shell, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, security::integrity, works-with-format::tar,
works-with::archive
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/makeself/makeself_2.5.0-1_all.deb