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Debian Package Creation- how to define environment variables within the package

I built a package with the sudo-ldap package defined as a dependency in the control file (please see below). I'm going to have people install using the gdebi command to install which should install ...
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Build .deb package from source, without installing it

Suppose I have an installer program or source tarball for some program I want to install. (There is no Debian package available.) First I want to create a .deb package out of it, in order to be able ...
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always purge on remove in package

I am maintaining a debian package, which includes some config files that are installed under /etc/. Is there a way I can somehow make the package to always automatically --purge itself whenever a user ...
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Derby ij from the CLI

I've fiddled about with manually install derby in order to have access to ij, but have since come across the javadb package(s), which is Derby under another name. Does this package, or is there a ...
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How do I install a package with aptitude?

I've looked at an aptitude tutorial and read the man page, but I just don't get it. After you launch aptitude, how do you say "install package foo"? Or search for all packages with "foo" in their ...
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which ppa or repo has libgmime-2.0-2a?

where can I download this package? I've found it in hardy, but it seems to be unavailable. I'm trying to install dbmail from http://debian.nfgd.net/debian : thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ sudo ...
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where or how to compile or download libzdb-devel

I'm trying to compile the development library for libzdb, because dbmail requires this dev package to compile. While I've downloaded and compiled the package from libzdb, this is just the regular ...
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Cross compile packages, question regarding armhf dependencies

I'm attempting to cross compile a couple Ubuntu Precise Packages, My current arch is amd64 my target is armhf. I have the correct cross compile GCC toolchain installed, I have correctly utilized the ...
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Java packaging and uploading to a PPA in Launchpad

I have a java application (created as a class) and I want to know how I can (or should I even) convert it to .deb format and then how to upload it to a Launchpad PPA so that everyone could install it? ...
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Is it possible to follow progress of particular package managers?

I notice that my node.js on the latest Ubuntu is only 0.4.12, but I'm trying to install something that needs 0.6. Is there a way to see the team who are involved in packaging this? Or track progress? ...
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Script to only execute during first install of a package

I recently started packaging up some of my software and publishing it on Launchpad. The installation and removal works fine, but upgrading the package form one version to the next version is ...
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Creating .deb with javahelper [closed]

I have already lost the full day trying to figure out what I'm doing bad. I can't package my Java application into .deb package. The steps I'm doing are: 1) Copy the src files into folder with name: ...
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How to create a meta-package that automatically installs other packages?

I'd like to be able to create a package that doesnt contain any code or programs itself, but instead installs other packages that exist in the repositories onto a computer, sort of how the ...
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How can I upload package for several ubuntu versions to Launchpad automatically?

See the title. I using dput and in my /etc/dput.cf : [ppa] fqdn = ppa.launchpad.net method = ftp incoming = ~onto/onto/ubuntu/ login = anonymous allow_unsigned_uploads ...
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How to create deb installer from tarballs? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Simplest Debian Packaging Guide? there are several tarballs (e.g. Firefox, Eclipse, Zend Studio and ...) that have executable file within, that easily we can extract ...