[SOLVED] Making deb file

Issue

I want to make deb file with java project I made and install it on other computer
I checked Debian New Maintainer's Guide and other tutorials, still I can't get it.

I made a file 'MyApp' and made a .deb file with it,

MyApp/Debian/control
MyApp/MyApp.jar

And installed it in my terminal to check it

sudo dpkg -i MyApp.deb

The terminal says it is unpacked, but nothing happens

So here are my questions,

1. How do I execute 'MyApp' in terminal simply typing

   MyApp

in my terminal?

2. How do I make man page with it? I want to install man page with MyApp.deb. I made MyApp.1 file but I don't know where to put it.

Solution

Packaging (for Debian, or anything else), is non-trivial. It's not something that can be explained in a forum in three paragraphs.

Luckily, there is quite a bit of documentation available for creating Debian packages, e.g.

• Guide for Debian Maintainers, as found in the debmake-doc package.
• Debian New Maintainers' Guide as found in the maint-guide package
• Introduction to Debian packaging, as found in the packaging-tutorial package.

Your problems are covered by these tutorials (even though the list includes the "New Maintainer Guide" which you've already read).

To give a more specific advice:

• make sure you know where your stuff should be installed to. if your project has a make install use that. if it doesn't, what would it do if there was one?
• a .jar file is not an executable. if you want your program to be executable, you will need a wrapper script, that calls your .jar file with the proper java-interpreter
• checkout packages that do something similar; learn from them
• checkout the debian/install file
• checkout the debian/manpages file

Answered By - umläute

Answer Checked By - Marilyn (WPSolving Volunteer)