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 <description>&lt;p&gt;This How To will cover creating a shell script that contains your installable product inside of it and can be used to install your product on a target machine.  This is essentially one file that contains both the files to install and the install logic within it.  You&#039;ll need a few tools to start off with, namely&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;uuencode&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;
and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;uudecode&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;
These are historical unix tools.  From the wikipedia page, at &lt;a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencode&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxdevelopernotes.com/howtos/creating-self-installing-executable-shell-script&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:10:35 -0600</pubDate>
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