README for Pale Moon for Linux installer source

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The Pale Moon for Linux installer (also referred to as pminstaller) is a script that is meant to ease installation of the Pale Moon binaries on Linux, made available at https://linux.palemoon.org.

You can find more information about using pminstaller here: https://linux.palemoon.org/download/installer/

You can find Release notes for each release of pminstaller here: https://linux.palemoon.org/information/installer-release-notes/

Technical details

The source distribution is arranged in the following manner:

• /bashobfus - A Git sub-module containing the bashobfus tool used by the installer. See https://github.com/Aralhach/bashobfus for more information.

• /bin/{arch} - Binaries specific to a specific architecture which are not commonly found in (major) Linux distros.

• /tools/ - Executable scripts used in the installer meant for general usage.

  *.wrapper are taken from Debian and used for terminal emulators that do not handle -e arguments properly.

• /files - Contains files to be deployed onto the target system.

• /userdocs - Documentation for use by the end-user.

Please refer to the files themselves for more info.

Compiling from source

To compile pminstaller from source, type in the following:

./compile

A full list of options can be retrieved by executing ./compile --help.

When compiled, the installer generates a shell script with data arranged in the following manner:

+-----------------------------------+
| <--minified contents of sfx.sh--> |
|-----[xz compressed tar data]------|
|bin/                               |
|    [...]                          |
|tools/                             |
|    [...]                          |
|files/                             |
|    [...]                          |
|userdocs/                          |
|    [...]                          |
+-----------------------------------+

Licensing information

Licensing information is available in the LICENSE file contained in the source distribution.

The files/LICENSE file only relates to the files actually bundled into the installer.