How To Install makeself on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install makeself on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install makeself.
Install makeself on Rocky Linux 8 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 Rocky Linux 8 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 Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the makeself package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove makeself
makeself Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install makeself on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.