Learning MOTU – Packaging 101 Part 1
By admin on August 31, 2010, 11:48 pm
In this video, Daniel Holbach teaches you how to get started producing an Ubuntu package. wiki.ubuntu.com
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Its mostly complicated reasons out there to use Unbuntu as OS.
B’cause it seems to be New OS. Commanding system is pretty uncatchy.
Anyway I make a tryout.
On the dh_make you can also do dh_make -s -c gpl3 so that you don’t have to change it from version 2 to 3.
I agree, it is good to have an alternative to what Microsoft and Apple force on you otherwise.
Well, that’s the goodness, nobody are forcing you to use a GNU / Linux distribution. If you’re a vivid gamer, perhaps Windows, vivid designer, OS X. If you’re something inbetween and a developer + one of the 1 billion that only use the computer to listen to music, talk to friends, etc, a linux distribution is a good idea.
Ah, I see how that can be good and make it less of a pain to use, but personally I still prefer Windows or OS X.
Well, he isn’t saying that.
Packaging is something nobody that wants to use Ubuntu needs to know. It’s mainly something developers / MOTU members will do.
(Packaging is the act of taking the source code of an application and organizing according to packaging standards then to compile that so that a regular user can easily install that particular application. It’s the messy work that makes it easier for the end user.)
I guess that guy in the video above these comments, why?
Who is saying that anyone has to know this to use Ubuntu?
You gotta be KIDDING me!!! You’ve got to know ALL this GARBAGE just to use UBUNTU??? What waste the time on something free if it takes longer than what you’ve gotta pay for?
Check out the manpage of dh_install. If you need an example, run
apt-get source ubuntu-artwork
I think you just move the files over to wheever they need to be and that’s it.
Something I have always wondered is what is the correct way to package files that don’t need to be compiled. eg Java binaries, Themes etc. I can generally hack these together but there must be a proper way of doing this. But it seems to be undocumented in packaging guides.