Re: Source code to DEB?
bart@gigabee.com (Bart Szyszka) wrote:
>Is there a package similar to alien which can convert a
>.tar.gz source code file into a DEB package? I've tried doing
>it with alien and it tells me it created the DEB OK, but when I
>try dpkg -i, there doesn't seem to be a file I can run to launch
>the program. Typing the command doesn't work and I tried
>a search for it on the harddrive too without much luck.
alien converts .tar.gz archives of *binaries* into a .deb, but not
source code. In order to do that, you'll have to learn how Debian
developers package programs. The Debian New Maintainers' Guide at
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ should get you started.
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Colin Watson [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
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