Tool to compress a bunch of install files on Linux

You can use an SFX file. I just tested it in Linux and it worked fine. Using PowerArchiver 6 (the last free version) on Suse10, under Wine .9.5, I put a Windows EXE into a new zip file. Then go an option to create an SFX from the zip (a self executing zip file). An SFX is the zip with an EXE front end pasted onto it. The extension is EXE. When the file is run you have an option to choose where the zip unpacks to and you can choose a file to run after unpacking. I ran a test by putting a small exe into the zip, creating the SFX, buttigning the small exe as the file to run after unpacking, then running the SFX. On both Windows and Linux the result was successful - the contained EXE ran and it's window opened.

You don't have to use PowerArchiver, but you can, and the free v. 6 is still available online. But most zip programs can make SFX files. (One note: PA on Linux defaulted to creating a TAR file. A TAR cannot be used for an SFX. You have to make sure it saves as ZIP.)

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