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    <p>Your answer can be found at the following page: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=847329" rel="noreferrer">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=847329</a> 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.</p> <blockquote> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The solution</p> <p>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:</p> <p>wget <a href="http://kolmoskone.homelinux.org/~kaja/kamaa/unzipsfx-552_win32.tar.gz" rel="noreferrer">http://kolmoskone.homelinux.org/~kaja/kamaa/unzipsfx-552_win32.tar.gz</a> tar zxf unzipsfx-552_win32.tar.gz sudo apt-get install zip</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Step three, making the ZIP file self-extracting * type in the following commands Code:</p> <p>cat unzipsfx-552_win32/unzipsfx.exe MYZIPFILE.zip > mysfxfile.exe zip -A mysfxfile.exe</p> <p>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.</p> </blockquote>
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