Hi Andrew, Have you written and maintained Debian packages before? I opened a Jira issue for this a whiel back and as far as I know it is a far from trivial process but I would be very very interested to get a Debiran package for Nutch and look at a mac package if so required. There is an issue of who is going to maintain these packages? Thanks lewis
On Friday, August 16, 2013, Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it would make nutch installation easier if we released standardized > packages. > > For example, the Nutch tutorial calls for manually downloading a ZIP, > extracting the contents, installing ant, compiling nutch with ant, and > adjusting PATH. > > What if instead, Ubuntu users could simply "apt-get install nutch", the > same way you can install wget with "apt-get install wget"? > > Similarly, we could help out Mac developers by submitting a > Homebrew<http://brew.sh/> formula > for nutch, and Windows developers would enjoy a > Chocolatey<http://chocolatey.org/> package. > The easier the installation process, the more people want to use nutch! > -- *Lewis*
