On 1/3/07, Tim <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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... </blockquote><div> it's only for personal use. Not meant to be widely spread. Thanks Tim </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> However, "self extracting archive" is the most common term I've come across for that sort of thing. <<a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=linux+self+extracting+archive">http://www.google.com.au/search?q=linux+self+extracting+archive </a>> finds <<a href="http://linux.org.mt/article/selfextract">http://linux.org.mt/article/selfextract</a>> at the top of the list, which sounds like what you want to do. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com </a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div>