How To Install makeself.sh on Ubuntu 22.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install makeself

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is makeself.sh and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 22.04 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install makeself.sh on Ubuntu 22.04. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install makeself.sh using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install makeself.sh using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install makeself

Install makeself.sh using apt

Because makeself.sh is available in Ubuntu 22.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install makeself.sh using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install makeself

Install makeself.sh using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu 22.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install makeself.sh by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install makeself

How to upgrade (update) a single package makeself.sh using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the makeself.sh, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install makeself

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install makeself

How To Uninstall makeself.sh from Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the makeself.sh package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove makeself

Uninstall makeself.sh and all its dependencies

To uninstall makeself.sh and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove makeself

Remove makeself.sh with all configurations and data

To remove makeself.sh configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge makeself

Remove makeself.sh completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to makeself.sh package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge makeself

Extra info and code examples

makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an optional 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. Makeself archives also include checksums for integrity self-validation (CRC and/or MD5 checksums). The makeself script itself is used only to create the archives from a directory of files. The resultant archive is actually a compressed (using gzip, bzip2, or compress) TAR archive, with a small shell script stub at the beginning. This small stub performs all the steps of extracting the files, running the embedded command, and removing the temporary files when it's all over. All what the user has to do to install the software contained in such an archive is to "run" the archive, i.e. sh nice-software.run. It is recommended to use the "run" (which was introduced by some Makeself archives released by Loki Software) or "sh" suffix for such archives not to confuse the users, since they actually are shell scripts (with quite a lot of binary data attached to it though!).

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install makeself.sh using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the makeself.sh from Ubuntu 22.04.

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