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Excelsior Installer vs Makeself

A side-by-side look at Excelsior Installer and Makeself. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Excelsior Installer

Excelsior Installer

Development

Excelsior Installer is a free software installation authoring tool for creating Windows installers. It provides a GUI and set of tools to package, compress, and build installers with advanced functionality.

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Makeself

Makeself

Os & Utilities

Makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable tarball for Unix. It packages software into a single executable file for easy distribution and installation.

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