Installing packages necessary for packaging
As of this writing, Lucid is the Long Time Support version of Debian-based Ubuntu.
For this tutorial, we use a Lucid PC with a fairly complete set of packages already.
Editors, version control, compilers etc. all are present.
But a few packages that are quite specific to package building still need to be installed...
Procedure 2.1.
Installation of packages needed for packaging
All packages at once
jurjen@cit-zb-3-53:~$ sudo apt-get install tree gmanedit lintian dh-make devscripts git-buildpackage libparse-debcontrol-perl debhelper build-essential gnupg pbuilder cowbuilder debian-archive-keyring