How To Install makeself on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install makeself in Fedora 36. makeself is Make self-extractable archives on Unix

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install makeself on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install makeself.

Install makeself on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install makeself

Install makeself on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove makeself

makeself Package Contents on Fedora 36

/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).