I've built a .deb for Digital Paintball a few years ago ( http://downloads.yellosoft.us/apps/digitalpaintball-debian-src.tar.gz, http://downloads.yellosoft.us/apps/digitalpaintball_2.0-19_all.deb). There's a tutorial for doing this:
https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging However, I'm using nutch for work, and may have an awkward time charging hours for contributing to nutch. If we could work together to get a .deb, maybe even a PPA repo for Debian/Ubuntu, a Homebrew formula for Mac, and a Chocolatey package for Windows, that would make my life, and probably thousands of others' lives, a whole lot easier. I'll see what I can get done during downtime, probably prioritizing Homebrew first. On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < [email protected]> wrote: > 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* >
