Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install makeself

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install makeself

MacPorts ports tree · archivers/makeself/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%

sudo apk add makeself

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · makeself · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install makeself

Debian stable package indexes · makeself · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install makeself

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · makeself · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#makeself

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ma/makeself/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%

sudo zypper install makeself

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · makeself · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Generates a self-extracting compressed tar archive

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

makeself

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

makeself is a portable shell-script tool that creates self-extracting compressed tar archives for Unix-like systems. The generated file looks like a shell script, often using a `.run` or `.sh` suffix, and embeds both an archive and the startup command that should run after extraction.

Projektgeschichte

The official README says makeself was written by Stéphane Peter and is maintained in portable Bourne-shell style so that both the generator and generated archives can run across Unix variants. Its design is deliberately simple: prepend a shell stub to a tar archive, extract into a temporary directory or chosen target, run a script, and clean up.

The project is historically tied to Loki Software's Linux game installers. The official site points readers to Loki Setup, notes that Stéphane Peter co-authored it, and recommends the `.run` suffix introduced by some Loki-era makeself archives. That gave makeself a visible role in the Linux commercial game and driver distribution era before distribution-native packages covered every case.

Adoptionsgeschichte

makeself stayed useful because it requires little from the target system beyond a shell, tar, and a supported compressor. The README lists examples such as Id Software game installers and patches, Loki game patches, NVIDIA Linux drivers, Google Earth for Linux, VirtualBox Linux installers, and the makeself distribution itself.

The GitHub repository shows continued maintenance, releases, and a broad contributor history. Newer releases added compression options, archive inspection flags, checksums, CI-friendly usage, and portability fixes while preserving the old package-maintainer promise: ship one executable-ish installer file without a native package repository.

Wie es verwendet wird

A common invocation is `makeself.sh archive_dir file_name label startup_script [script_args]`. Generated archives support options such as `--list`, `--check`, `--target`, `--noexec`, `--keep`, and `--tar`, which makes them inspectable and scriptable in package and release automation.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package nerds care about makeself because it occupies the gray zone between tarballs and native packages. It is not a dependency solver or package manager, but it is a common vendor distribution format that package maintainers often need to unpack, audit, repack, or replace with distro-native recipes.

Zeitleiste

1990s-2000s: Loki-style `.run` archives popularize self-extracting shell installers for Linux games and applications.
2010: The official GitHub repository is created.
2025: GitHub lists makeself v2.7.1 as a release.
2026: The official repository remains maintained with thousands of stars and hundreds of forks.

Related projects

Related tools and formats include Loki Setup, shell archives, tarballs, AppImage, InstallAnywhere-style binary installers, and native package formats such as deb, rpm, and pacman packages.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risikoklassifikator

blue Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · tool

Warum

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signale

text:archive,compress

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 1 Plattformziele verfügbar.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`makeself`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-07-08

Manager-Version2.7.1

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://github.com/megastep/makeself

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Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:makeself
Version	2.7.1
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/makeself
Homepage	https://makeself.io/
Repository	https://github.com/megastep/makeself
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://github.com/megastep/makeself#readme
Lizenz	GPL-2.0-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://github.com/megastep/makeself/archive/refs/tags/release-2.7.1.tar.gz
Bottle	verfügbar (auf all)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	makeself
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

makeself 2.5.0-1

utility to generate self-extractable archives

http://www.megastep.org/makeself/

sudo apt install makeself

Section: utils
Architecture: all
1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Makeself

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: makeself from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Nix95%

makeself

nix profile install nixpkgs#makeself

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Makeself

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ma/makeself/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Ubuntu apt95%

makeself 2.5.0-1

utility to generate self-extractable archives

http://www.megastep.org/makeself/

sudo apt install makeself

Section: universe/utils
Architecture: all
1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Makeself

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: makeself from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

apk95%

makeself 2.5.0-r0

Generate a self-extractable compressed tar archive from a directory

https://makeself.io/

sudo apk add makeself

License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: makeself
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Makeself

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: makeself from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

dnf95%

makeself 2.7.1-1.fc45

Make self-extractable archives on Unix

http://makeself.io/

sudo dnf install makeself

License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: noarch
Source Package: makeself
2 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Makeself

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: makeself from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

zypper95%

makeself 2.7.1-1.2

Make self-extractable archives on Unix

https://makeself.io/

sudo zypper install makeself

License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Category: Productivity/Archiving/Compression
Architecture: noarch
Source Package: makeself
1 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Makeself

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: makeself from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

MacPorts95%

makeself

sudo port install makeself

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Makeself

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: archivers/makeself/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/makeself.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

makeself mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, zypper installieren