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2012-11-11 Thread AllowOverride
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Question: Packaging a Program from a Dir that is Not a Deb Package in the least...

2012-11-11 Thread AllowOverride
Hello, I am new here. Be gentle. What I would Like to do: a. create a .deb from a directory of 3rd party paid software. b. be able to install the .deb on debian server. I have looked at all the documentation I could stand about howto go about it, seems rather complicated, and I'm sure it is,

Deb Package Question

2012-11-26 Thread AllowOverride
Hello, I am trying to package up a folder that has two more folders and is a self contained program. i have tried debuild, dpkg-buildpackage, all sorts of deb build this and thats, and well its really hard to package up something. now im sure it's easy for some of you, but remember this is a