After trying to wrap my head around several other .deb packaging tutorials, I found yours to give the best explanation as to how it's done, and it's really surprisingly easy to do, no less. Thanx! :-)

Once I learned how to build a .deb package, I then started unpacking .deb packages and looking inside to see how they operate and see what pre and post scripts do my system. If you want to play with installing software that your package manager does not want to install, you can unpack the deb package, modify the control file and tweak the dependencies so the package will install. It can be a fun waste of time. :-)

@Milosz_Ostrow

5 жыл бұрын

If something can be learned by doing that, I would never consider it a "waste of time". You never know when the knowledge might be crucial.

@Kamel419

3 жыл бұрын

i can see your point in calling it a waste of time lol. there are far worse ways to waste time though for sure

@ed4157

2 жыл бұрын

Great tip, I did that with the google-chrome and I could create my .deb file easily since like google-chrome my app also create a symbolic link to the bin

Another excellent video Joe. Congratulations on 75K subscribers. When I first subscribed i think you were only about 30K (Only 30K! That it self is a great effort). All the hard work and effort you put into your videos is appreciated. Thanks Joe.

This is absolute treasure. Thank you so much, Joe. Really appreciate this. Greetings from Scotland.

Thanks. Clear and easy. Everywhere I looked, they made it complicated.

Man, thank you so much for this amazingly instructive video! From now on, before installing any .deb file, I will check the inner things just to see how the whole package works. I now understand why you say to be "very, very carefull" about where we get Debian packages from on the Internet. It's look so easy to put some maliscious code in one of them.

Congrats on your growing KZread base. You make great content on :-)

Mr Collins Thank You for Imparting KNOWLEDGE I really REALLY APPRECIATE YOU

Love your voice and clear English speech. I enjoy it.

that was really simple. thank you. everyone make this so complicated but you are really the best. keep working

I think this is the first video i ever see in youtube for creating packages in Linux systems

Perfect and very clear guide! I've tried before to create a deb package and found it too complicated, but after your explanation it's quite easy, THANK YOU!!! Remark: Joe, You have >75,000 satisfied users, don't be upset by the trolls. You are doing fantastic job!

Many thanks for this video. I've read through this process before, but, like you, I had a hard time with it. Your video made it clear. I'll take notes on it, and add it to my "Tips And Tricks" internal website. (I don't know why other explanations of this process are hard to understand.)

Great, exactly what I was looking for! Many thanks & BR

Amazing video! You just gained a new sub!

Great as always! Congrats on the over 75K!!! USER @ 16:48.... HaHaHa, yep I call it User everytime I type USR still.... It's the way I remember it... Thanks for the videos as I reference them a lot.. I know I can write stuff down but I lose it, so I save notes in a reference file and use it to go back to videos to see how it is done! Thank you so so so much!

Great video, really easy to follow.

Congratulations on the 75K achievement. You know 100K will be around the corner very soon!

Thank you very much, I can't believe it is this easy

Wonderfully and patiently explained. It is obviously simple now. Subscribed for more. You could ease out on the font size just a little bit. It's nice that it's big, but the prompt takes whole screen estate instead of the command... but I don't want to complain, the tutorial is awesome. BTW, quite nice voice impression you made 14:23 :)

Thank you for sharing the this video, it guided me to understand the process.

This is really awesome Joe! Like a few others I tried following the debian maintainers guide the first time and things didn't work out. This video clarified some things and I managed to build a .deb package on an Ubuntu system and it installed perfectly on an Xubuntu system. One question: thinking I should have packaged for /opt because the software I'm packaging has a binary blob that depends on an assets/ directory in the same directory. This doesn't seem like a good practice to put those in /usr/bin. So thinking have an /opt/myprogram and a symlink in /usr/bin to /opt/myprogram?

Thanks for clear explanation

Terrific video! Thank you

Thank you for the informative and enjoyable tutorial. Explaining the project directory may have been more clear using the 'tree' command. Thanks again and wishing you the best in your career.

It was of great help. thank you !

thanks for this job ! it works well.

We subscribe to quality and this channel is quality.

Thank you, this is very useful. I don't know why all the other tutorials online are so complicated... are they using an older method or something?

You are the man Joe...

very useful tutorial. thank you

Thanks a lot, -From The Ubuntu Cinnamon Team

Clear explanations. Straight to the point. Thanks.

Nice tutorial.

Thank you.

@Joe Collins , Thanks for the awesome video on walking us through how to create a .deb package , i have learnt how to build one and how to install in my system . however i would like to make it available to all using my own ppa , i did create my own account in launchpad . but the documentation about uploading the packaging is so cluttered or i simply not interested to the hard path to upload. can you walk us through the uploading procedure please. TIA

@EzeeLinux

3 жыл бұрын

No.. I use Git. It's way simpler. Go learn Git if you want to share. :)

So many ways to generate deb packages. Some say pbuilder is the way to make those .deb packages. Also, looking at the Debian source files from "apt source " I am seeing not only a different file structure, but also naming is a bit different. For example, instead of "DEBIAN" like you are showing, I am seeing "debian."

Nice one

Thank you for the nice video. It could be a bit shorter instead of explaining every detail about what directories are for what but in the end it helped a a significant deal.

Thanks for the help. Fyi, you might benefit from installing tree.

that warning is what I needed. too many installs or other issues can break linux. but i needed more visuals. had to quit this video after 8 minutes

You can apt purge to remove configs from home

I will keep your video in my references for sure, thanks! Next, how to create or modify an AUR package for Arch systems!

@EzeeLinux

5 жыл бұрын

I don't do anything Arch related. Not really into packaging anyway, as I said at the beginning of the video. :)

@philippecardin1109

5 жыл бұрын

@RDE Lutherie Thanks i'l keep that in mind!

I made an ezeelinux profile today. Looks like a good community. I’m not surprised though.

Thanks.

is there any logic to version numbering schemes? I see all sorts of combinations of numbers with : . - + characters in between

I run linspire 8.0 CE 2019 it is hybrid Linux primary Ubuntu but has rpm and other types of packages

Thank you for the video, i've been looking for this. Thank: command not found edit: no sarcasm btw, very usefull

07:50 not quite - /usr/local/bin according to few things I read is for the locally compiled from source software, so we should not put anything there manually. This is what I read on like 2 different places.

Have you seen how windows MSI install files are built? A nightmare of complexity. It is beautiful how simply deb packages are created.

Green belt achieved

thanks to guide me

How can I make my debian app also run from command line (if made in python)

Would be great if you did video for ftp server that works and setting permissions so logged in user can create files etc... also sharing directory and connecting from one linux machine to another.

@stephenjames5745

5 жыл бұрын

Tom H why not just use sftp through ssh?

@Pan_Samochodzik

5 жыл бұрын

@@stephenjames5745 It was easier to use usb drive. I'm learning basic bash and linux under the hood is like going to dark forest at night while blindfolded with hands tied and looking for instruction manual that is encrypted form of most obscure lost language. Lol, geez I'm funny.

I have a small question even that I know its a older video. I tried to add the dependencies line to make sure the packages are installed and saw they were separated by ; in the description. But I unfortunally got this error 'Depends' field, invalid package name 'iptables;grep;coreutils;gawk': character ';' not allowed (only letters, digits and characters '-+._') And when I looked back at your video they were actually , separated so I think that is a error in the description

@tanja84dk1

Жыл бұрын

@Axel Steiner Thank you for reminding me why to NEVER comment on youtube anymore

You have great content, not surprised why your getting subscribers. I just wanna be a good Stewart of what I already have and created. Making the experience a good one and passing it other acquiring minds. " Lean on Me" song by Bill Withers.

How would I create internal structure of the package if some files need to be copied to /home/USER/.config? What do I type instead of USER because I don't know how user folder is called on every system?

@textoffice

2 жыл бұрын

use the $LOGNAME environnement variable in command in the postinst script

I did not consider subscribing....I just subscribed

So you can use one of these deb packages to put files anywhere on your system. If these files happen to overwrite key components of your OS, or even the kernel ... ? Definitely handle with care!

@EzeeLinux

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, you got it. :)

@givenfool6169

2 жыл бұрын

Dangerous Freedom for sure

👍👍👍👍

Two words: you rock! Wait, that's four words, eight words. Oh Crap, counting in binary again.!?!

Pro tip: "apt purge" instead of "remove" will eliminate all configuration files as well. It's a good idea to use this to automatically get rid of leftover files if you don't have any intention of reinstalling the program or ever using it again.

@ajinkyarathod5180

3 жыл бұрын

Really thank you for this. Is there any documentation about this I can read?

@MrHatoi

3 жыл бұрын

@@ajinkyarathod5180 You can look at "man apt", under the "install, remove, purge" section: "Removing a package removes all packaged data, but leaves usually small (modified) user configuration files behind, in case the remove was an accident. Just issuing an installation request for the accidentally removed package will restore its function as before in that case. On the other hand you can get rid of these leftovers by calling purge even on already removed packages. Note that this does not affect any data or configuration stored in your home directory."

@ajinkyarathod5180

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrHatoi Thankies

Probably not a great idea to arbitrarily remove files from the user's file system without at least prompting for confirmation. What if I have my own program called xbt in my $HOME/bin/xbt for example? -> dangerous data loss!

@EzeeLinux

5 жыл бұрын

The chances that a user would have their own program called xbt in the ~/bin directory and get mad 'cause the installer for a new program called xbt removed it are just about zero. Better to test for and then remove an old version than to have a user contact you and tell you that the update didn't work.

@OpenGL4ever

4 жыл бұрын

@@EzeeLinux You're wrong. You can't assume that it's unlikely that someone is using the name xbt for his or another program. Because the name consists of only three characters, the chances that this name is used already is thus even very high. To do it the correct way you should use some sort of checksums like sha256sum, and compare it to your known old xbt binaries. That way you can exclude, that you will accidentally delete someones other file. The only disadvantage of that way is, that you will have to keep a history of all possible checksums and it will stop to work if someone is creating his own binaries from source. In the latter case you should ask the user if he wants to have that file be deleted. And one more thing, all in all this should even be not necessary when the file is installed via a package manager.

A new Debian version is going to be release with /usr merge. What’s your take on this?

@EzeeLinux

5 жыл бұрын

That's just pluming. I don't have strong option on it either way... :)

@_antoniocouto

5 жыл бұрын

Learn Linux They are moving everything from /bin, /sbin, /lib and /lib64 to /usr. What is all about: www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ Debian 10: www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-Go-Ahead-Merged-Usr

why you are using unconformable bash prompt

@ayoubelmhamdi7920

2 жыл бұрын

@@coreyhollaway7368 you can change the prompe in bach by change PS1 like export PS1="> "

Why don't you just use Open Build System from OpenSUSE? You can easily package software for all formats.

@EzeeLinux

5 жыл бұрын

That doesn't teach you how .deb packages work, though. That's the point of this video.

guys i have a problem when i try to dpkg-deb --build ... i get error "control directory has bad permission 700 (must be>=0755 and

@EzeeLinux

4 жыл бұрын

Make sure all the directories in you build directory are set for 755. Use 'chmod 755 directory-name' to do that. :)

@hamzaodt3515

4 жыл бұрын

@@EzeeLinux yes it worked thanks

seems like this should be automated

for java ?