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