Chapter 2.  Setting up for packaging

Table of Contents

Introduction
Installing packages necessary for packaging
GPG keys
PBuilder setup
The environment

Creating and updating packages and geting them into place can be automated to a large extent. But if your machine and environment aren't configured properly, it becomes very easy to forget steps, and the process becomes tedious and prone to error.

So in this chapter, we install the tools, set up their configuration, keys, environment variables etc. etc.