Anatomy Of A Debian Package

Google TechTalks
July 21, 2006

Jonathan Oxer is the founder and technical director of Internet Vision Technologies in Australia, as well as the current president of Linux Australia, the national organization for Linux users, developers, and vendors. He is one of the authors of O'Reilly's Ubuntu Hacks.

ABSTRACT
Learn about the internal structure of Debian/Ubuntu packages and how to create them, starting with disection of a binary package and then going through the process of creating your own package using various build helper scripts to automate much of the process.

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[MCMXIX]

on Debian there are 3 ways to install a package

1) dpkg -i yourprogram.deb

or

2) apt-get install yourprogram (this solves dependecies ---most windows installs don't have anything like this)

or

3) Open Synaptic click search, find your package, click the checkbox next to your program then click Apply and that's all. this also solves dependencies.

So it's even easier to install software on Debian! AND, none of the Debian packages contain malware unlike window$ installs.

Debian RULZ!!! :)

[hatetubeharry]

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[markcunninghamyoutub]

shame this is 240, no better quality from google?

[quti88]

@MCMXIX 2) Or use much better `aptitude` instead.

[commodore256]

Yeah, installing program in windows is easy. (especially antivirirus 2009)

[markoresko]

There is also aptitude with text interface.

[Sekinto]

He is speaking extremely clear English. I'm an American, and I think he is speaking much clearer then most of the people I meet with my accent.

[Sekinto]

There are more ways. But essential everything uses dpkg.