Issues

• Feature: Allow processing of archive prepared by user

  megastep/makeself#359 · Filter by author brainchild0 opened on May 20, 2026
  

• MD5 check fails with uutils dd on Ubuntu 25.10

  megastep/makeself#357 · Filter by author yuxi-liu-wired opened on Apr 12, 2026

• Extraction failed issue

  megastep/makeself#351 · Filter by author kymowang opened on Nov 19, 2025
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• Makeself script slow for large archives in versions 2.4.2+

  megastep/makeself#344 · Filter by author tonygoldman opened on Jul 9, 2025

• makeself 2.4.5 - Error - change permissions from 775 to 700 on "/" (root dir) after extracting bin file

  megastep/makeself#333 · Filter by author imthernet opened on Jun 10, 2024
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• fails with "Error in MD5 checksums" when dd isn't available

  megastep/makeself#332 · Filter by author moritzschepp opened on Jun 2, 2024
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• makeself option --ssl-pass-src masks use in [script_args]

  megastep/makeself#330 · Filter by author keithy opened on Apr 26, 2024

• Division by zero on small files (UID too large?)

  megastep/makeself#324 · Filter by author bjackman opened on Mar 7, 2024
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• [demand] add compression support format xz 7z zstd

  megastep/makeself#321 · Filter by author andykimpe opened on Feb 14, 2024
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• Setup from very old Makeself cannot extract anymore

  megastep/makeself#316 · Filter by author commel opened on Sep 29, 2023

• makeself removes directory name when specifying directory without sub-directories

  megastep/makeself#314 · Filter by author PeterWhittaker opened on Aug 29, 2023
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• can't execute cd "$tempdir" before executing cleanup script if run with --notemp

  megastep/makeself#310 · Filter by author AlReka opened on May 19, 2023

• RFE: --tempdironhome ← creating random temporary directory on user home

  megastep/makeself#302 · Filter by author belonesox opened on Apr 3, 2023
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• «--notemp» does not recreate «new directory created in the current directory» but unpack all files to old directory with same name

  megastep/makeself#300 · Filter by author belonesox opened on Mar 31, 2023
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• Multi file/split archive

  megastep/makeself#273 · Filter by author natemason opened on Jun 29, 2022
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• Script may fail when run as root on GNOME

  megastep/makeself#270 · Filter by author lukas-w opened on May 12, 2022
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• parallel decompression using pigz ?

  megastep/makeself#264 · Filter by author gadh opened on Jan 26, 2022
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• Replace dd usage to head+tail

  megastep/makeself#256 · Filter by author slonm opened on Sep 20, 2021

• makeself "--posix" argument in tar for increased compatibility actually broke compatibility in Alpine Linux (BusyBox)

  megastep/makeself#240 · Filter by author ntx-ben opened on Jan 29, 2021
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• Use the --cleanup parameter error

  megastep/makeself#230 · Filter by author EscapeLife opened on Nov 20, 2020
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• makeself-header.sh chdir actions are broken

  megastep/makeself#227 · Filter by author zenonian opened on Nov 15, 2020
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• "Not enough space left" error even with "nodiskspace" option set

  megastep/makeself#212 · Filter by author tasso85 opened on May 26, 2020
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• lock down the binary

  megastep/makeself#208 · Filter by author elonden opened on Apr 17, 2020
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• Cannot extract application packed by makeself...

  megastep/makeself#207 · Filter by author wxguy opened on Apr 15, 2020
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• makeself --ssl-passwd usage exposed in header --info

  megastep/makeself#193 · Filter by author arrjay opened on Nov 24, 2019
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