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I can vaguely remember that many programs used to install themselves this way under Linux.
by cocodill 3y ago
I can vaguely remember that many programs used to install themselves this way under Linux.
- nerdponx 3y agoI've seen it recently with the Conda and Mamba package managers.
- teddyh 3y agoIt was used on Unix systems even before that.
- dekhn 3y agodefinitely used something similar on VAX/VMS called VMS_SHARE (https://www.glaver.org/ftp/multinet-contributed-software/vms_share/vms_share.user_guide https://www.glaver.org/ftp/multinet-contributed-software/vms...) circa '90-91 in fact I found an old archive of mine floating around on usenet and wrote a python script to unpack it. Looking at the original, it was using a scripting. language bootstrap to make a COM script unpack embedded the original code.
- a2tech 3y agoLots of commercial Linux software use this still for installing their stuff. It’s a neat trick
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