Packaging and uploading to launchpad is possible from Ubuntu based Linux?

Question

Is it possible to build packages and uploading them to the launchpad through the Ubuntu based Linux operating systems?

My intention or requirement behind this question is to have a very light Ubuntu based system and have to upload packages from that system, is it possible?

Answer 1

If you're just going to use a lightweight install of Ubuntu without the desktop packages, then yes, it is possible to create packages and upload to Launchpad. You'd need to have at least dput and build-essential packages installed in order to be able to build and upload packages. Preferably you'd also need devscripts, ubuntu-dev-tools and pbuilder in addition to build packages.

If you're going to use an Ubuntu-based distribution instead of Ubuntu, like Mint or something, then you need to ensure that the distribution you are using has the required packages (like dput for uploading and build-essential, devscripts and pbuilder for building) in order to build and upload packages.

You'll also have to set up dput according to the instructions here.

Answer 2

Uploading a package to a launchpad personal archive is indeed designed to be done from an Ubuntu system (it would be surprising if it required a different platform). Only command-line tools are required which hopefully satisfy the requirements for a lightweight system.

Packaging/PPA/Uploading explains the process, using the dput tool.