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I've created several Python applications wherefore I know how to create a DEB and how to push an application into my PPA in Launchpad. What I never found out is how to make the application startable from the terminal by just entering its name like you use to do with any other Linux application. I guess that I have to create a link to the application's shell script in /usr/bin/ but I don't know how to do this in my rules file which looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/make -f
# -*- makefile -*-

%:
    dh $@

override_dh_install:
    dh_install nota/* /usr/share/nota/
    dh_install applications/nota.desktop /usr/share/applications/
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Frist your script has to be executable so:

chmod +x script.py

Then you have to either include the script directory in the user's PATH variable (source it in the .bashrc)

PATH="$PATH:/path/to/script"

or copy/link it in a directory that already listed in PATH:

cp script.py /usr/bin/

That should do it in the make file. For the last option make has to be invoked with sudo.

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  • Make sure to strip the .py though. Commands should not have extensions.
    – geirha
    Mar 29, 2012 at 20:43
  • Okay somehow I overlooked the .deb building part an just thought of a make file. I have no experience with that. My bad. Still why can't you just put ln -s /path/to/script.sh /usr/bin/commandname in your rule-file?
    – con-f-use
    Mar 29, 2012 at 21:08
  • Yes, that is what I expected. I prefer to create a link to my 'script.sh' in /usr/bin/. But I still don't know how to do it.
    – Ralf Hersel
    Mar 29, 2012 at 21:21

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