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Old 06-21-2008   #1 (permalink)
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I have downloaded some programs for Linux that have been nothing but .bin or .sh files. running the .bin or .sh installs the software, regardless of distro. These seem very similar to .exe installers on Windoze. I wanted to distribute my program like this (for those who do not want the source code) so I was wondering how exactly you create these kind of installers.
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Hello,

check out shar.
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what's shar?
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An abbreviation of shell archive.
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so how does it work? Packaging my software with shar i mean.
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this is the manpage for shar if it can help
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