Your answer can be found at the following page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=847329 Please note that I do not take credit for anything other than using Google and finding something that sounds logically like it would work. I do not guarantee that this information will work, or that you will be able to find the mentioned materials online anymore. I'm just a fan of Google. I hope this helps.
The problem A few days back I had to
create a Win32 compatible
self-extracting ZIP file for a friend.
Sounds easy, right. The problem was
that I didn't have a Windows machine
nearby and I didn't want to install
any archiving programs under Wine.
NOTE: A freeware ZIP program such as
IZArc under Wine can be used to create
a Win32 self-extracting ZIP file too.
That will not be covered by this
howto, sorry.
The "research" Googling around I found
this forum post dated August 2003.
Reading it I found out that
self-extracting ZIP files are nothing
more but a suitable unzip binary
followed by a normal ZIP file. I used
the unzipsfx.exe included in Info-ZIP
UnZip 5.52.
The link on that post worked a few
days ago so I got my hands on the
unzipsfx.exe that I was looking for.
Today, 2nd July 2008 I found the link
dead. After some googling I didn't
find a working link anywhere. I read
the licence a few times and understood
that I can redistribute the original
unzipsfx.exe with a license included.
Please note that the
unzipsfx-552_win32.tar.gz (80 kB) is
not an official Info-ZIP package and
it includes copyrighted software that
I take no credit for. More info in the
Info-ZIP license that is also included
in the tarball. The source code for
the binaries included can be found
here.
The solution
Step one, getting the unzipsfx.exe and
zip package:
* open the Terminal (in Ubuntu press alt+f2 and type gnome-terminal)
* type in the following commands Code:
wget
http://kolmoskone.homelinux.org/~kaja/kamaa/unzipsfx-552_win32.tar.gz
tar zxf unzipsfx-552_win32.tar.gz sudo
apt-get install zip
Step two, creating a ZIP file in
Ubuntu:
* open the file manager (nautilus) and select the files you want to have
zipped
* right click and select Create an archive (or similar). Select a
location for the ZIP file, using your
home directory is the easiest. Select
type .zip. See man zip for information
on how to create a ZIP file in command
line.
Step three, making the ZIP file
self-extracting
* type in the following commands Code:
cat unzipsfx-552_win32/unzipsfx.exe
MYZIPFILE.zip > mysfxfile.exe zip -A
mysfxfile.exe
mysfxfile.exe can now be opened in any
Win32 compatible system (including for
example Windows XP/2000/Vista and even
Wine in Linux) or ANY ZIP COMPATIBLE
archive program such as file-roller in
Ubuntu.