How To Install makeself on Fedora 34

makeself is Make self-extractable archives on Unix

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install makeself on Fedora 34.

What is `makeself`

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install makeself on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install makeself.

Install makeself on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install makeself using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install makeself

Install makeself on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install makeself using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install makeself

How To Uninstall makeself on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the makeself package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove makeself

makeself Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/makeself
/usr/bin/makeself.sh
/usr/libexec/makeself-header.sh
/usr/share/doc/makeself
/usr/share/doc/makeself/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/makeself/README.md
/usr/share/doc/makeself/makeself.lsm
/usr/share/man/man1/makeself.1.gz

References

makeself website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install makeself on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.