Questions tagged [packaging]
refers to the creation and maintenance of Debian or snap 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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quickly package --extras replaces developer email with hostname
After running quickly package --extras for my project, I've noticed that in project_dir/debian the changelog file has my developer email listed as alex@myhostname, instead of my proper email address. ...
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How do I create a deb for GCC 4.7?
I'm sorry but I have tried the tutorials on various websites. Nothing, so far, has worked. I'm using Ubuntu Maverick 10.10. I've downloaded, compiled and installed GCC 4.7.0. Now I want to make a .deb ...
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Can I make deb files for documents and other non-binary content?
I would like to create .deb files with no binary content (*.odt files, for example).
The idea is to create a file that contains didactic files to learn certain discipline and an automatically package ...
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How do I investigate/confirm the identity of a PPA maintainer (e.g., Chromium Team)?
The Chromium Stable PPA (as found here: ppa:chromium-daily/stable) is maintained by Chromium Team (https://launchpad.net/~chromium-team). I assume this is "Google's" Chromium developers? If so, I ...
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Application won't run when installed in "/opt"
I've developed a program for the App Developer Showdown, with quickly, in python, and it works as expected when I package and install it normally -in /usr. However when packaged for installation in /...
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How to use 'dh_installgsettings'?
My app use systay.
I know I should use gsettings to set the 'systray-whitelist' key.
Now I would like to package my app.
After I googled, I guess dh_installgsettings can help me.
So I put a file ...
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quickly package --extras doesn't produce /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/../share/locale
I'm trying to package an app to /opt, but when installed the app won't run and complains:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/drawers/bin/drawers", line 45, in <module&...
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Change version number in launchpad
While committing package to launchpad through quickly submit, version automatically jumped to current month, that is 12.07. I did try to delete all milestones and re-upload the package. But every time,...
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How to set application name when creating .deb, using Quickly
When I open created .deb package , my application name is UNKNOWN . Please help, how to fix it...
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quickly ignores subfolder
I have a problem with packaging quickly. I have a project foo:
foo/
foo/bar/
foo_lib/
data/
When I run
quickly package --extras && file-roller ../*deb
I always miss /opt/extras....
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App Showdown: Universe dependency
I'm currently in the process of packaging my submission for the Ubuntu App Showdown.
I read in the rules that the package may not have dependencies that are not in the Ubuntu repository. But what ...
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How to prevent quickly from replacing Exec=.* in the .desktop file?
I'm still trying to make Quicklists work and found the problem:
Quickly creates debian/rules with
sed -i 's|Exec=.*|Exec=/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/wakeonplan/bin/wakeonplan|' debian/wakeonplan/usr/share/...
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Ubuntu App Showdown: Commercial applications
Me and a few of my friends decided to create a game for the App showdown. However, we wanted to make a commercial game out of it (for <5$).
So the question is:
If I want to submit a commercial app, ...
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How do I upload a .deb created by Debreate to my PPA?
I made a program using Qt Creator, and I made a package (.deb) using Debreate. Now I want to know how to upload this on PPA. I already created PPA on launchpad.
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How do I create a Debian branch for my project on Launchpad?
I have a project on Launchpad that consists of a single branch (trunk). I would like to create a second branch that contains the Debian packaging for the project (with the intent of creating a build ...
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Quickly share error (Can't upload to ppa)
I'm using quickly and I can't seem to upload to my ppa. This is what I get:
$ quickly share --ppa swink/ppa
Get Launchpad Settings
Launchpad connection is ok
.........An error has occurred when ...
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Correctly packaging for /opt with dh_make
I know, this has already been asked a few times, but it doesn't seem to cover my case yet.
I'm trying to package a Mono-application to run from /opt.
First, I tried these guides:
https://wiki....
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debian/rules error "No rule to make target"
i'm having some problems creating a .deb file with debuild
before reading some tutorials i managed to make the file but i always get this error:
make: *** No rule to make target «build». Stop.
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Broken Debian package with Quickly due to UnicodeDecodeError
I created a test application with Quickly. When I used quickly package, I get this warning:
Ubuntu packaging created in debian/
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Space escape character in Debian Makefiles
I'm currently trying to upload a package onto Launchpad's PPA service but I'm having problems with a path name which includes a space character. I'm trying to make a file install into a directory with ...
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any basic app packaging guide for a newbie? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Simplest Debian Packaging Guide?
i've made an app using wxpython, i have some .py files and some icons, how can i package it for uploading it to launchpad??
i've already set ...
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Quickly package command fails
I get an error when trying to package my quickly application:
$ quickly package
........Ubuntu packaging created in debian/
............An error has occurred during package building
ERROR: package ...
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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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How to create deb package from Windows applications?
I want to make a deb file from a Windows application which will be run with wine. how do I make it?
As an example, I use Ubuntu Christian Edition and I find the application Virtual Rosary is ...
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Help building pygtk application
This is my application.
It is created with quickly.
I would like to package it for Ubuntu now.
I tried to package it with uickly, but that failed.
At first, I was trying to install it using setup....
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Making IntelliJ IDEA community edition available in software repository
I'd like to package IntelliJ IDEA (Community) to make it available from the standard Ubuntu software center.
How do I go about this?
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Why does APT want to upgrade my package?
I need nginx compiled with a special flag, so I grabbed the source from the nginx stable PPA (apt-get source), changed debian/rules, built it and packaged it with debuild/dpkg-buildpackage, and ...
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Using the RandR-enabled nvidia 302.xx beta driver in 12.04 with a realtime kernel
How can I use the recent beta of the 302 version of the nvidia driver (which finally supports the RandR extension!) with a realtime kernel in Precise?
This question contains information on enabling ...
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Setting the icon for my mime type [closed]
I've added my mime type to ubuntu by the .deb package.
I made this file for sharedmimeinfo: http://paste.ubuntu.com/920693/
(I know the first row is wrong)
I can't see the icon for my extension how ...
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fakeroot debian/rules binary error
I have a package I'm maintaining. When I issue "fakeroot debian/rules binary" I get this error:
dh_install --sourcedir=debian/tmp
cp: cannot stat `debian/tmp/usr/share/prg/1.svg': No such file or ...
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How to make PPA build for particular release
I'm creating my first proper PPA to patch a problem with Compiz. debbuild/dput works fine but Launchpad tells me it's only building it for Quantal.
I've no interest in doing that for the minute - I'd ...
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How to package a single text file into a .deb?
I'm trying to a make a simple .deb package, which would basically edit a config of another package I listed as a dependency.
I added the required manipulations to the postinstall file.
The problem ...
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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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How do I package a python app for ppa?
I am planning to package FBuntu into PPA for easier distribution.
The nature of this app is that the user has to make specific edits to the auth.py file to make it work and hence I am stuck from ...
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OpenSSH 5.9p1 on Ubuntu 11.10
I want to build a deb package with the latest version of openssh from source. Then I want to install it on my machine.
I am running:
Linux Ubuntu-1110-oneiric-64-minimal 3.0.0-12-server #20-Ubuntu ...
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Is there a utility similar to "apt-file" that can search source packages?
I'm looking for a utility similar to apt-file that allows me to search the contents of source packages for certain files, rather than just binary packages.
Is such a utility available for Ubuntu?
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"Cannot load such file -- openssl" when running bundle
When I try to use bundler, I get the error:
/home/vivek/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- openssl (LoadError)
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How do I use a Launchpad recipe for patching and building an original package?
I have a patch against vim which applies to packaged version. I would like to automate this, so that when new ubuntu is released, the newer unpatched vim gets patched & built using a recipe. I ...
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Create custom package - and add a private repository
While developing a custom, commercial application, I need to provide appropriate automatic updates.
Can I create a package that, in addition to containing my specific application, also adds it's ...
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Add icon to Unity panel during/after package installation
Intro: I am currently creating a custom Ubuntu ISO for an appliance I am creating. All work on the development of this ISO is done in a chroot, so there is no graphical environment. What I would like ...
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Custom package is uninstallable
I have a custom package I've built, python-amqplib, which relies on python >= 2.5. I'm using repoman to push to my repo via Jenkins, which reports the build was pushed successfully. After an apt-get ...
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Adding mime type
Hello i'm creating an ide called SLY.
Sly creates .slyproj files i want that when user click on it they see the file icon, and sly must open up!
i asked on the IRC i made sly.sharedmimeinfo : http://...
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dpkg and equivs
i am trying to make a metapackage with equivs, creating the package is working perfect, but installing it is giving me an error:
Selecting previously deselected package testdeb.
(Reading database ... ...
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Which architectures to support?
I'd like to provide a "deb" package for my software, now I wonder which are the architectures to support? The goal is Ubuntu 11.10 and above. i386 and amd64?
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Is it possible to use 'dch -r' but NOT end up in an interactive editor?
I'm trying use dch -r to update the DEBFULLNAME, DEBEMAIL, and TIMESTAMP in a debian/changelog for automated building of a package.
Normally, I'd use dch with -r to do this. But this drops me into ...
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Creating Debian Package For Qt app [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Simplest Debian Packaging Guide?
I'm writing an IDE in C++ using Qt for the GUI and Qt Creator as an IDE. I have seen many tutorials about the Debian packaging system but I am ...
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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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How to make packages cross different Ubuntu release?
I'm the author of some software , which depends on libxx6 (In ubuntu 11.10) , but in 12.04 , the package become libxx7 (7 is not a Ubuntu version number) , so the dependency become a problem.
How can ...
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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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Building multiple packages for deployment on different Ubuntu versions
I need to build debs for Ubuntus Lucid on. I know I can set up VMs/chroots, etc to make a distribution per build, but is there a mechanism from my Oneiric machine to do something like:
ubuntu-dpkg-...
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