In this context, packaging refers to the creation and maintenance of Debian packages. Whether you are looking to update a package for your personal use or wondering how to get your software into the hands of Ubuntu users, this tag is for you.
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Packaging nodejs code, how do I prevent lintian from complaining about ./node_modules?
We ran into this problem while packaging some software written in nodejs.
Because we can't package each and every dependency separately, we need to ship the node_modules/ directory along with the ...
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Launchpad packaging: Found files in /usr/local (must be in /usr)
Trying to package software for precise and I usually installed into /usr/local to avoid clashes with /usr — but we can no longer. The package builds in pbuilder, but not on launchpad.
Up until ...
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Best practice: version numbers for own packages
Recently I've started packaging software with fpm. The public makefiles can be found on bitbucket.
But I've a problem with version numbers. When I'm generating a package for e.g. the fish-shell I ...
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Quickly can't package, but raises no errors
I am trying to make a .deb package for my project in quickly. This is what I get:
ilya@ilya-laptop:~/Projects/online-translator$ quickly package
...........Ubuntu packaging created in debian/
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Is it possible to continue “debian/rules binary” from the middle?
I am trying to build certain Ubuntu packages for armhf because they are not available for anything but amd64 and i386 from their source. Sometimes I get failures during the build process, and I can ...
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How to pack a program for easy Ubuntu installations? [duplicate]
//Ubuntu newbie here
We have a framework that we need to be able to easy deploy on Ubuntu machines (12.04). Which format should I use? (RPM, deb, something else?)
How does one goes on to pack a ...
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Which version of Ubuntu should I use to begin my contribution in packaging?
I follow the MOTU's guide about packaging, there is a note that advice to do the packaging work in the current development version ( I'm running 13.04 ) and to use a VM. I don't know exactly which is ...
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How do I correctly bump the version number when building a kernel package from git?
When building a patched kernel from Ubuntu kernel git repositories how do I change the version numbers so that the resulting kernel package has the following properties:
Installs files in /boot/ ...
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How can i avoid downloading packages every-time I install my Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Every time i install Ubuntu on a computer I have to download the applications/packages
with total size of 1.5~2GB and it took lots of my network bandwidth & time!!
How can I avoid downloading the ...
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How to package a simple bash script
The below bash script was written in ~10 sec, but packaging it would take me hours of skimming through big walls of text so I ask my self if there is an easy way out there that I don't know about.
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How come the override_dh_build-indep sequence isn't run by debuild?
I'm having a bad time trying to generate some documentation for a shared library within debian/rules. I asked a question earlier about which target to use for generating the documentation.
My problem ...
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Which target in debian/rules do I need to use for generating documentation?
I have run into some problems creating Debian packaging for a shared library. The application contains a Doxyfile which is used to generate documentation for the library. I would like to create a ...
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How to package a shell script? [duplicate]
I have a shell script . I want to convert the script into a terminal application which can be installed using sudo apt-get install and can be run through the terminal by typing the name of the ...
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How to keep version number in a single place in a python project with setup.py and debian/control
For a python project I'm working on, I'd like to:
Keep a version string in a single place.
Be able get the version string at runtime for logging purposes
Get a default value when launching the code ...
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Export Package [Eclipse]
I am just wondering how do I export a .deb package for Ubuntu Software Centre in Eclipse? I have created an application that runs Python and Webkit now I wish to submit to the Software centre. How do ...
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What's the easiest way to package files into a deb?
I have a bunch of static web files that change from time to time. Right now I'm syncing my servers up using rsync, but I'd instead like to add scripts to my git repository so that when changes are ...
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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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Files in include-binaries missing from debian.tar.gz
I'm building a Debian package (version 3.0 quilt) from some upstream sources. I'd like to add an extra binary to the source, so I copied it to the correct location in the source and added an entry to ...
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reupload package to launchpad with orig.tar.gz changed
I uploaded a package geos-3.3.8.orig.tar.gz to launchpad with success, but the build failed because a mistake in the source code, then I have changed my geos-3.3.8.orig.tar.gz with the right code, and ...
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What would cause files not to be included in a .deb?
I'm trying to build a .deb package (python) as part of a larger project.
I'm able to successfully run 'make' and 'make install' on it, but when the package(s) are built (using dpkg-buildpackage ...
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how to create a .bin file?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I am stuck at creating a simple .bin file which can print a message "hi" or anything else. My objective is to create a binary file.I have searched but didn't found ...
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Making a metapackage that depends on a package with a different architecture
I'm making a metapackage to install a number of packages that comprise my standard setup, like the package ubuntu-desktop. One package that I'd like to install is [Adobe Reader][1], which has a deb. ...
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Is Creative Commons a recoginsed license?
I would like to package an application that uses Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0:
http://www.gmaptool.eu/en/content/license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Is ...
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Can't package my quickly app after editing
I've had a lot of problems packaging my quickly app. After some editing I packaged it sucsesfuly, then I:
moved the packaging-files (jotty_0.1_all.deb jotty_0.1.dsc
jotty_0.1_i386.changes ...
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Quickly gives warnings on packageing, not recognizing setup.py~
I have been trying to make an application and package it and so on, but I have run in to a lot of errors, so I tried to get back to basic:
after the command quickly create ubuntu-application dj1 and ...
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how to do a pbuilder-dist build with dependencies in a ppa?
I'm trying to build a package for my ppa that uses packages from two other ppas. I want to do a test build using pbuilder-dist. I have done this before and I know that I need a combination of:
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Create a deb containing object files and link in the target machine
I'm working on a project where we have a couple of machines running some applications developed by our dev team. All the machines use the same Ubuntu version (12.04 x64). We want to use deb packages ...
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Qt Unmet dependencies when trying to package
While I was using qt4 I used this libs to package my app: debhelper (>= 8.0.0), libqt4-dev, qt4-qmake but now I'm using qt5 and those libs are no longer valid since I get error: unmet dependencies. ...
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What is a tainted binary package?
Using dpkg I created some debian packages containing self-written libraries that install without problems. But when I try to run lintian on one of them, I just get the following error:
warning: ...
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Add custom steps to source package's debian/package.postinst?
I have a package that incorporates an auto-generated debian/package.postinst.debhelper file into the generated binary. When I put my own code into a file at debian/package.postinst, the auto-generated ...
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Why is the Android SDK not packaged in an easy way in Ubuntu? [closed]
Disclaimer: this is not just me saying "This is waay too hard, duh!"
I am asking out of interest.
So, why is an important piece of software like the Android SDK missing from all the repositories and ...
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Depends: exim vs mail-transport-agent
I am creating a .deb installation package for our software, which depends on a valid SMTP server being installed. Currently the control file states:
Depends: mail-transport-agent
However one Debian ...
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Packaging for multiple releases of Ubuntu [duplicate]
When putting a package in a PPA, how can I support multiple versions of Ubuntu through the same PPA? Is there a way to say that a package is compatible with all releases? Or is there a way to upload ...
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Launchpad build error - missing libgtk3
I've just tried to upload my first ubuntu package to ppa and I got:
dh_strip debug symbol extraction: disabling for PPA build
dh_strip debug symbol extraction: not doing anything since NO_PKG_MANGLE ...
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Uploading quickly packages to Launchpad
I created an application using Quickly and packaged it using the command quickly package. But after I uploaded it to my PPA, I got a message from Launchpad saying:
Rejected:
Source/binary (i.e. ...
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Juju Charm, Deb Package or Puppet
I have a django project which when deployed provides mysql-nss services. This dule use database setup requires automatic deployment by any basic server user. The first part is the creation of an sql ...
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Debian package creation for PHP
How to create deb package for PHP code, where code should be installed in a certain dir like /usr/share/phpproject and install a conf file for Apache under sites-available then simlink it to ...
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Howto handle packaging and development in one git repository?
From my point of view at the moment git-buildpackage is only intended for using upstream sources which are not in the same repository.
I already have a git-buildpackage repository with the branches ...
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How can I ask the user for a destination and PATH location during installation of my package?
In my one of requirement I need to build one package where I want to copy some files to the location given by the user. In this GUI is written in GTK+ from which I have one executable file. So now I ...
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Change environment variables in debian/rules according to debian/control targets
I have this package mypackage which is already bundled for Ubuntu. For setting the compiler, debian/rules contains
DEB_CONFIGURE_SCRIPT_ENV += CC=gcc
I would now like to extend the package in that ...
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How to use 'apt' to get source code and then do separate compile
I want to get the source code for a project and then build it the same way that apt would. E.g. I want the working source code and be able to run 'make' or similar command on the source.
How can I ...
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How do I resolve Debian packaging issue with ${python:Depends}?
I am trying to build a python-based Debian package and I see the ${python:Depends} variable under the Depends section in the control file.
While installing, I see that it refers to the ...
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Contributing to the package or the upstream branch?
While learning about Ubuntu development & packaging, there's one part that's not quite clear to me. So, let's say we're in the middle of active development (e.g. Raring) before feature freeze and ...
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What is the “right” way to debianize software that uses the scons build-system?
What specific tools are available, if any, or should we just use a fake Makefile that runs scons?
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Help with creating my own .deb file
I found this video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhoRyd2CEVs
I followed it step by step just with my own files and i thought i understood everything but when i was done and wrote this ...
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Packaging for the Ubuntu Software Center
I have a question about packaging for the Ubuntu Software Center: must the package to upload be a .deb file? If so, how do I create one? I dont use the pygobject API.
Thanks
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How to create a .deb file with dependency?
I have a game made with the LÖVE framework and i want it into a .deb file so it can be easily installed by others and easily findable through the Unity dash for example. I also have the LÖVE framework ...
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Submit merged Debian package for inclusion in Ubuntu
I'm currently working to update the version of autogen shipped with Ubuntu from 1:5.12-0.1ubuntu2 in the repositories to 1:5.17.1-1 in Debian. The merge has been completed on my computer and the ...
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Software center states “The package is of bad quality” - what does it mean? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is a “bad quality” package?
I'm trying to author a .deb package, and with the one I have now, when I install it on Ubuntu 12.10 I get the next error:
The package ...
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How to create a .deb package from compiled source files?
Question:
Mono 3.0 is out, but I found no ppa from where I could install it.
There is this one:
https://launchpad.net/~directhex/+ppa-packages
but it's mono 2.10.8.1-5.
I'm playing with ASP.NET ...
