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Makeself Alternatives
Makeself is described as 'Sh is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable tar.gz archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is' and is a software installer in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Makeself for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best Makeself alternative is Inno Setup. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Inno Setup or NSIS. Other great apps like Makeself are Setup Factory, Advanced Installer, DeployMaster and Py2MSIX.
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36 Basic Setup Builder alternatives
Deb-Creator is a tool to quickly create Debian packages. The program provides a simple graphical user interface written in C++ using Qt Creator. It uses the dpkg command in Linux to build the final Debian package.
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A tool for developers who want to make there application available as RPM packages. rpmbuild has to be installed and you should have a good idea how rpmbuild works. The templates will give you some help how to build your own rpm package for your application.
RPM Package Maker is a frontend for creating RPM packages quickly and easily. It requires root access.
Nixstaller is an Open Source project with the goal to create user friendly and flexible installers that work on various UNIX like systems.
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Deb-o-Matic is an easy to use utility to build Debian source packages, meant to help developers to automate the building of their packages with a tool that requires limited user interaction and a simple configuration.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Visual Installer is a powerful but easy-to-use setup tool. You can create a distributable setup package and a visual setup wizard in minutes, without any programming. A created setup package can be deployed via a CD, DVD, USB stick or the Internet.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Easy gui to build rpm package from binary (developed and tested on Fedora 18). Attention: This software can run also on windows but works only for linux!
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
If you want to create installers for software that you created on the Windows platform it's most likely that you tried to use the Wix-Toolset.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
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