The Pale Moon for Linux installer (also referred to as pminstaller) is a program that is meant to ease installation of the Pale Moon binaries on Linux, made available on http://linux.palemoon.org.
To compile from source, type in the following:
./compile
A full list of options can be retrieved by executing ./compile --help
.
The source distribution is arranged in the following manner:
-
/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 on to the target system. -
/userdocs
- Documentation for use by the end-user.
Please refer to the files themselves for more info.
The installer, when compiled, 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 is available in the LICENSE
file contained in the source
distribution.
The files/LICENSE
file only relates to the files bundled into the installer.
For example bash_obfus.plx
is not bundled in the installer and the
files/LICENSE
file leaves out the licensing terms for bashobfus
. (The
preceding was valid at the time of this writing.)