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A self-extracting archiving tool for Unix systems, in 100% shell script.

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Hi, I have a large setup package (about 19GB/9GB compressed) so I'm trying to split it with the tar Tape and Multi-volume options. I'm hoping someone else has come up...

First of all Is the idea of distributing Makeself for non-Linux platforms is good for Makeself creators? For me it will be good to have the exact same tool with...

If the extraction script determines that it's not running in a terminal, it will try to open one: https://github.com/megastep/makeself/blob/e7eb0fda3c08fe113cf0de7bdc08cc6df1157bc0/makeself-header.sh#L573-L579 On GNOME, this may lead to an error when run as...

i use v2.4.2 and compressed in parallel using pigz. now in the decompression process i see it uses gzip which does not support parallel. can it use pigz in decompress...

I got the error message following under makeself v2.4.5, ``` tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ERROR: failed to create temporary archive: /tmp/mkself23700.tar Makefile:187: recipe for target...

I noticed that `--needroot` and other recent additions like `--zstd` and `--threads` are missing. Also `chown` and `--nochown` are missing.

Sometimes we need to do some cleanup before the `.run` file is actually extracted. For eg, we stop the processes before extracting the files. In our use-case, not doing so...

Based on my fall into incompatibility `dd` call in makeself v.2.2.0 with busybox on Synology and extended investigation dd usage on [stackexchange](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/121888/467562). As result i rewritten only `MS_dd()` while `MS_dd_Progress()`...

Hello, I created archive with simple command from examples but start of script has lines: `No LSM. EOLSM exit 0 ` Which basically means unless I provide LSM file I...

Using makeself v2.4.3 in Alpine Linux 3.12: ``` Header is 682 lines long About to compress 301096 KB of data... Adding files to archive named ""... tar: unrecognized option: posix...