Information about the package, makeself, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The makeself package is designed for, Make self-extractable archives on Unix.
Package Name:
makeself
Summary:
Make self-extractable archives on Unix
Description:
makeself.sh is a shell script that generates a self-extractable tar.gz archive 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 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.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2.2.0
Release:
3.el6
Size:
26 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the makeself package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install makeself
This command will install makeself on the server.
yum remove makeself
This command will un-install makeself on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove makeself, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove makeself
This command will un-install makeself on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove makeself when using the -y flag.
yum update makeself
This command will update makeself to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove makeself, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update makeself
This command will update makeself to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove makeself when using the -y flag.
yum info makeself
This command will show you core information about the makeself package.
yum deplist makeself
This command will show you the dependencies for makeself. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update makeself
This command will check if there is an update waiting on makeself. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.