Anatomy Of A Debian Package

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Google TechTalks
July 21, 2006

Jonathan Oxer is the founder and technical director of Internet Vision Technologies in Australia, as well as the current president of Linux Australia, the national organization for Linux users, developers, and vendors. He is one of the authors of O'Reilly's Ubuntu Hacks.

ABSTRACT
Learn about the internal structure of Debian/Ubuntu packages and how to create them, starting with disection of a binary package and then going through the process of creating your own package using various build helper scripts to automate much of the process.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: July 23, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Author: Google

Length: 00:56:16
Rating: 4.85
Views: 6811

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Video Comments:
MzDutchDoll (July 12, 2008 at 2:51 am)
texuxi you're an idiot he's not hard to understand he's speaking in clear english...it's an Australian accent. You're a nimrod.
cobracobra113 (January 28, 2008 at 12:41 pm)
Now let me tell you how to install a package under windows: start yr prog, type instal and watch... he he
MCMXIX (February 4, 2008 at 5:43 pm)
on Debian there are 3 ways to install a package
1) dpkg -i yourprogram.deb
or
2) apt-get install yourprogram (this solves dependecies ---most windows installs don't have anything like this)
or
3) Open Synaptic click search, find your package, click the checkbox next to your program then click Apply and that's all. this also solves dependencies.

So it's even easier to install software on Debian! AND, none of the Debian packages contain malware unlike window$ installs.

Debian RULZ!!! :)
edvansuporte (October 11, 2007 at 7:47 pm)
Very good!
semiliteratedgod (October 17, 2007 at 3:57 pm)
but too long
paxcoder (December 21, 2007 at 11:31 am)
agreed :-)
texuxi (September 25, 2007 at 4:36 am)
I can't understand what the person says. (accent) Subtitles would help.