How I made the bltwish package
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Because the officially distributed Debian package for blt lacks
/usr/bin/bltwish and the other binariy executable files, I made a
supplementary Debian package to install these. Here is what I
did:
1. I manually built the blt program from scratch
(configure, make, make install) on my computer.
2. I created a temporary directory called build.
3. In that directory, I created the following subdirectory
structure:
mkdir -p bltwish-2.4z-unofficial/DEBIAN mkdir -p bltwish-2.4z-unofficial/usr/bin
Note that the first of these creates the directory called
bltwish-2.4z-unofficial, which is what I want to call my debian
package, and then it also creates a subdirectory called DEBIAN that
will house the packaging instructions. The second line creates the
directory tree I want to install in., i.e, I want everything
installed in /usr/bin.
4. In the DEBIAN directory, I create a file called control that has the
following contents:
Package: bltwish Version: 2.4z-1 Section: libs Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Essential: no Depends: blt Maintainer: William Scott [wsgcott@users.sourceforge.net] Provides: bltwish Description: Installs the bltwish binaries missing from blt
Then, in the /usr/bin directory I copy the executable files I have
already compiled:
5. Then I make sure the owner and group are root:
chown -R root:root *
6. Finally, I issue the following commands from the build directory:
sudo dpkg-deb --build bltwish-2.4z-unofficial sudo dpkg -c bltwish-2.4z-unofficial.deb sudo dpkg -i bltwish-2.4z-unofficial.deb
The first of these builds the Debian package, the second shows me
that all of the files I wanted to go into it in fact went into it,
and the third installs those files into my filesystem.
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