How to Install and Uninstall makeself Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "makeself" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install makeself on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall makeself on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: makeself
Architecture: all
Version: 2.4.2-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Bartosz Fenski
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 63
Suggests: bzip2
Filename: pool/universe/m/makeself/makeself_2.4.2-2_all.deb
Size: 24136
MD5sum: d52b1386a2c62f774edc4b8ca9006fe6
SHA1: 9923a7536cc0b23b9fb40d5df9797311bb503dfa
SHA256: 44baee300ff5421b85ba278388fe44359c293a70cb11bb54cab1d4944551604c
SHA512: 13cc9a6358c6ca47b0d57fc6000f7ad192031dd5304bd984be2efd6eb65eb48d3bcd44a1b95a7097c313b21396835786eddf127f6f9cb8076db8c76365036c15
Homepage: http://www.megastep.org/makeself/
Description-en: 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: dc6bdc2e87bbb20dc88592a9cb738d99