Vitruvian Tux

Previously I wrote a post with one of the many alternatives for creating Debian packages. This time I want to propose another way forward if you need to compile packages a program that you downloaded the sources.

First procuriamoci what we need to give the shell

$ Sudo apt-get install devscripts dh-make make build-essential dpkg apt

Now that we have ways to build we can start by following these steps:

1. Procuriamoci the archive containing the source of the program that we want to package.

2. We extract the package and enter the directory created

$ Cd folder_name

3. We give the following command:

$ Dh_make-s-e-n-mia@email.com copyright gpl

4. We start the actual compilation with:

$ Debuild binary

At the end we will find, outside of source directory, the package. Deb of the program.

Some notes:
dh_make: create a subfolder. / debian / that is used to compile
Warning: This guide is a minimalistic and very general, and does not cover the endless compilation of case studies of various programs, then, for any problem we suggest you search on the net.

NB: Important to read is the Debian packaging policy.

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