CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Reputation: 5

Making deb file

I want to make deb file with java project I made and install it on other computer
I checked Debian New Maintainer's Guide and other tutorials, still I can't get it.

I made a file 'MyApp' and made a .deb file with it,

MyApp/Debian/control
MyApp/MyApp.jar

And installed it in my terminal to check it

sudo dpkg -i MyApp.deb

The terminal says it is unpacked, but nothing happens

So here are my questions,

  1. How do I execute 'MyApp' in terminal simply typing

    MyApp

in my terminal?

  1. How do I make man page with it? I want to install man page with MyApp.deb. I made MyApp.1 file but I don't know where to put it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 420

Answers (2)

asking questions
asking questions

Reputation: 81

Most of the Debian doc contain very complicated methods to create deb file. You can find simple steps to follow to create deb files in below link https://www.lookup2learn.com/post/how-to-create-debian-package

Upvotes: 0

umläute
umläute

Reputation: 31374

Packaging (for Debian, or anything else), is non-trivial. It's not something that can be explained in a forum in three paragraphs.

Luckily, there is quite a bit of documentation available for creating Debian packages, e.g.

Your problems are covered by these tutorials (even though the list includes the "New Maintainer Guide" which you've already read).

To give a more specific advice:

  • make sure you know where your stuff should be installed to. if your project has a make install use that. if it doesn't, what would it do if there was one?
  • a .jar file is not an executable. if you want your program to be executable, you will need a wrapper script, that calls your .jar file with the proper java-interpreter
  • checkout packages that do something similar; learn from them
  • checkout the debian/install file
  • checkout the debian/manpages file

Upvotes: 1

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