Build a Debian Package

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In this tutorial we will create a Debian package for lesslog. If this program is installed, it will copy two binaries and a readme-file in /usr/local/pgsql/bin/. This will be done with this package.

1. Create a directory for the package, e.g. pglesslog = package root-directory
2. Create every folder in this directory, e.g. usr/local/pgsql/bin
3. Move the binaryfiles where they ought to be stored, usr/local/pgsql/bin
4. Create a folder called DEBIAN in the package root-directory
5. Create a file named control in the folder DEBIAN
6. This file stores the information for the package. One example how this file look like (For further details, see [1]):

 Package: pglesslog
 Source: pglesslog
 Version: 1.1
 Section: misc
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: amd64
 Depends: postgresql-8.3
 Maintainer: Heinz Lang <email@wu-wien.ac.at>
 Description: lesslog - PostgreSQL logfile compressor
  see /usr/local/pgsql/bin/README.lesslog

1. Create the package. Run the following command one level above the package root-directory

 dpkg -b pglesslog pglesslog_amd64.deb