How to Install and Uninstall makeself Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "makeself" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install makeself on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall makeself on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: makeself
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 77
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Bartosz Fenski
Architecture: all
Version: 2.2.0-1
Suggests: bzip2
Filename: pool/universe/m/makeself/makeself_2.2.0-1_all.deb
Size: 19644
MD5sum: cd2e06c3865f65eb55b58406dc070d98
SHA1: 228980cacf427c31895dcc3377393013ed6c92f8
SHA256: 276c2e40080279834f1367208b90bf89d03ae843864b2b33df5c1a8fd614f07e
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
Homepage: http://www.megastep.org/makeself/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu