RE: installing an end user editable file

[james frize <jamesfrize@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Got my Debian packages almost fully working now, everything
installs/uninstalls without error.
However, when I try to run the newly installed program it wont work
properly as it lacks permission to save to file.

My program loads a list of hyperlinks from a text file (links.txt),
this text file is currently in usr/share/<packagename> (I've also
tried to install it directly to home/<user>/Documents but that didn't
work either)

I want my makefile to install links.txt in a manner that will allow my
end user to write to the file without permission violation.

Cheers.

Here's the makefile so far:

#!/usr/bin/make -f
# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
# This file is public domain software, originally written by Joey Hess.
#
# This version is for packages that are architecture independent.

# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
#export DH_VERBOSE=1

icon = $(CURDIR)/link-lizard-icon.png
script = $(CURDIR)/gtk-link-lizard.py
launcher = $(CURDIR)/gtk-link-lizard.desktop
links = $(CURDIR)/links.txt

DEST1 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/usr/share/gtk-link-lizard-1.4
DEST2 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/usr/share/applications

build: build-stamp

build-stamp:
	dh_testdir

	# Add here commands to compile the package.
	#$(MAKE)

	touch build-stamp

clean:
	dh_testdir
	dh_testroot
	rm -f build-stamp

	# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
	#$(MAKE) clean
	#$(MAKE) distclean

	dh_clean

install: build clean $(icon) $(script) $(links) $(launcher)
	dh_testdir
	dh_testroot
	dh_prep
	dh_installdirs

	mkdir -m 777 -p $(DEST1)
	mkdir -m 777 -p $(DEST2)

	install -m 777 $(icon) $(DEST1)
	install -m 777 $(script) $(DEST1)
	install -m 777 $(links) $(DEST1)
	install -m 777 $(launcher) $(DEST2)

	# Add here commands to install the package into debian/<packagename>.
	#$(MAKE) prefix=`pwd`/debian/`dh_listpackages`/usr install

# Build architecture-independent files here.
binary-indep: build install
	dh_testdir
	dh_testroot
	dh_installchangelogs
	dh_installdocs
	dh_installexamples
#	dh_installmenu
#	dh_installdebconf
#	dh_installlogrotate
#	dh_installemacsen
#	dh_installcatalogs
#	dh_installpam
#	dh_installmime
#	dh_installinit
#	dh_installcron
#	dh_installinfo
#	dh_installwm
#	dh_installudev
#	dh_lintian
#	dh_bugfiles
#	dh_undocumented
	dh_installman
	dh_link
	dh_compress
	dh_fixperms
#	dh_perl
	dh_installdeb
	dh_gencontrol
	dh_md5sums
	dh_builddeb

# Build architecture-dependent files here.
binary-arch: build install
# We have nothing to do by default.

binary: binary-indep binary-arch
.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install