Albert Weichselbraun

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.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

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