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How to package a game for Linux?

I have a game that currently runs under Windows and Mac OS X and I'd like to make it available under Linux. The porting should be fairly easy since it's a Java based game and uses portable libraries that are available on all 3 platforms. The hard part and the reason for this question is packaging it so that it works on as many modern Li...

How do I add an init.d script into a .deb

I have a project.init file in the debian directory (along with rules, control, etc), and I have dh_installinit in my rules file (in the binary-arch rule). When dpkg-buildpackage completes, the init script has been copied to debian/project/etc/init.d/project, and the various pre/post scripts have been created. However, when I actually i...

deb package task for Phing

does anybody know a Phing Task to create .deb packages for Debian base linux systems? ...

Linux packaging abstraction layer written in Python?

I'm looking for a way to generate .deb and .rpm packages from my build scripts, containing the resulting products. Since everything is written in Python, I'm wondering if anyone knows of an abstraction layer that would allow me to drive both RPM and Deb construction from the same code? ...

license info of a deb package

I am trying to get license information of uninstalled deb packages. dpkg --info <package-name>.deb does not give that information. Is there any command in ubuntu which will give this info? (In rpm world rpm -qpi gives that info) ...

Including license agreement in .deb file

How can i include a license agreement interaction in a .deb file? The question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/668838/linux-support-for-click-thru-licenses only asks if its possible, but not how. Also, I'm not sure if http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1884753/license-info-of-a-deb-package is actually something one could use... I kno...

building Debian and Redhat packages with leiningen

Moving my project from Ant to Leiningen went so smoothly that I am looking at new things to include in the build process. one of which would be to automatically create a .deb and .rpm file in the build. What is the easiest way to do this? ...

easy, straightforward way to package a python program for debian?

i'm having trouble navigating the maze of distribution tools for python and debian; cdbs, debhelper, python-support, python-central, blah blah blah .. my application is a fairly straightforward one - a single python package (directory containing modules and a __init__.py), a script for running the program (script.py) and some icons (.pn...

Visual Studio 2008 - Break All into user code thread?

Debugging a workflow as a service in VS 2008. The Break All option always takes me to a non-user code thread (The dct thread at CreateEvaluationFrame). I can switch to the user code thread, but I was hoping there might be some trick to getting VS to break into this thread. TIA ...

Distributing a jar

I'm distributing a jar file, with associated libraries, media, documentation, etc. I would like to create a simple deb/rpm package for linux users, and I would also like to distribute this for windows. What is the best way to go about setting up the jar to play nicely with debs? Every deb file I've looked at so far has been c/c++ with a ...

How to create .deb packages on Mac OS X

Hello, I am trying to upload my app on Cydia and it requires .deb package. I am unable to figure out how to make .deb packages on mac. I am using 10.6.3 when I write this command on terminal dpkg-deb -b MyProgram Termina output is -bash: dpkg-deb: command not found I've install fink, Mac ports insert Mac DVD to find out but no...