Thank you Carlo, Actually, I was cutting a few corners and did a quick read through the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible as well as a few other sites (I like IBM's site for quick answers for lots of little tid bits!) and I created the DEBIAN directory with associated files and skipped the dh_install process as I thought it was primarily for when building from source, which I'm not delivering... I later started looking again and it seems that I'm missing maybe the debconf file to hold the users responses for installation.
I also noticed that it's quite possible that my postinst file may have failed due to a bad sed command so I'll check to see if it's correctly being called as I do not know if the dpkg -configure is necessary as one site indicated it may be required. I'm really new to Debian (about 5 days) so I'm sorry if my learning curve is slow. Do you think I'm on track? Thanks! Robert --- Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Robert: > > > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, robert jennings wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > Okay, so I read the fine manuals and examples from > > many many places and maybe I'm just alittle tired > > after I successfully created my first .deb package > > (binary) but when I went to install it, the dpkg > -i > > xxx.deb installed all the files into the root > > directory and the postinst file was not run. > > > > I ran the dpkg -status and it said it was > installed > > ok, but no files were installed other than just > what > > was put into the root directory and the > data.tar.gz > > file was left intact. > > > > It's possible that I need to create alot more > > information as I'm only packaging binary material, > but > > it would help to get even a simple document that > > explains what I'm doing so I can fix it for > myself. > > > > Could you give a bit more information? It would > help to know what the > package is, how the build environment variables are > set and what the > debian/rules file looks like. If you could make the > package files > availabke for download, I am sure that you would get > a lot of help. > > From what you say, if there is no compilation of > programs here, you might > just be missing some arguments in the dh_install > commands. It is hard to > say. > > Cheers, > > Carlo > > -- > Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics > Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate > College > Illinois Institute of Technology > Voice: 312.567.3498 Fax: 312.567.3494 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iit.edu/~segre > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
