Re: autoextractible archive

[Zacharie Elcor]

On 1/3/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au&gt; wrote:
>  On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 14:51 +0100, Zacharie Elcor wrote:
>
>  > I need to make a simple command line installer (a binary file that
>  > would uncompress its content when run, then execute an arbitrary
>  > comand) but I didn't find such a utility in fedora packages.
>
>  Sounds awfully like planning to build a trojan... 

it's only for personal use. Not meant to be widely spread. Thanks Tim

However, "self
>  extracting archive" is the most common term I've come across
> for that
>  sort of thing.
>
>  <http://www.google.com.au/search?q=linux+self+extracting+archive> finds
>  <http://linux.org.mt/article/selfextract> at the top of the list, which
>  sounds like what you want to do.
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