There ALREADY IS a Xastir PPA in Launchpad! All Lee has to do is register at Launchpad and join the Xastir PPA unless I am missinformed.
73 Dave KB3EFS On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:09 AM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:51:53PM -0500, Lee Bengston wrote: >> I'm kicking myself for not looking into how to make deb packages >> sooner, because it turned out to be simpler than I expected. I have a >> deb for Ubuntu 10.04 now and also one for Debian Lenny (tested and >> found to work on Mepis 8.5). I'll post them sometime tomorrow for >> anyone who cares to be a guinea pig. > > Yes, it is surprisingly easy. I've made a few myself. > > Post them, I'll try them for you. > > Another thing you might like to look into is setting yourself up a > Launchpad PPA (personal package archive), where you put the .deb files, > and then this makes it somewhat easier for Ubuntu users to install and > then track the updates to your package. > > Making it easier is what software is all about. The Ubuntu PPA users > generally need to click on a link and then agree to what is proposed, > then they are off and downloading. Next step is starting the > application from the menus. > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- David A Aitcheson [email protected] david.aitcheson on google and skype _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
