installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%

brew install makeself

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%

sudo port install makeself

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

Linux

Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%

sudo apk add makeself

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

Debian aptvérifié · 92%

sudo apt install makeself

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

Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%

sudo dnf install makeself

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

Nixvérifié · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#makeself

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

openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%

sudo zypper install makeself

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

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Generates a self-extracting compressed tar archive

Liens du projet

Commandes et alias

makeself

historique

Historique du projet et usages

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.

Historique du projet

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.

Historique d'adoption

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.

Modes d'utilisation

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.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

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.

Chronologie

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.

Sources

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : blue

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

Classificateur de risque

risque blue · confiance moyen · tool

Pourquoi

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signaux

text:archive,compress

Comportement d'installation

Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 1 plateformes.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

exécutables

Exécutables installés

Commande	Type	Exposition	Note
`makeself`	cli	exécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-08

version du gestionnaire2.7.1

gestionnaire mis à jour

données localesOK

amontnot checked

dernière version détectéenon détecté

https://github.com/megastep/makeself

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/megastep/makeselfconfiance none

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquet	brew:makeself
Version	2.7.1
Gestionnaire de paquets	Homebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquets	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/makeself
Page d'accueil	https://makeself.io/
Dépôt	https://github.com/megastep/makeself
Docs amont	https://github.com/megastep/makeself#readme
Licence	GPL-2.0-or-later
Archive source	https://github.com/megastep/makeself/archive/refs/tags/release-2.7.1.tar.gz
Bouteille	disponible (sur all)
post-install Homebrew	non défini
Service	aucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

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

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

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 dépendances optionnelles
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : 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
Correspondance par : 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 dépendances optionnelles
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : 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 fournit
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
1 fournit
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : 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 Dépendances
1 fournit
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : 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
Correspondance par : 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

graphe de paquets

Les liens viennent du graphe local de relations entre paquets, des suppléments, des dépendances, des correspondances d'écosystèmes et de l'appartenance aux hubs.

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/makeself.yml

Sources utilisées

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

Installer makeself avec Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, zypper