How To Install makeself on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install makeself
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install makeself.
Install makeself on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install makeself
using yum
by running the following command:
Install makeself on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install makeself
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall makeself on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the makeself
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install makeself
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.