Seriously basic .deb package???

[oshunluvr]

I have a couple small servicemenus and associated scripts that I have written. I want to package them so my son can install them without any effort (not a geek).

There are a couple of "depends" not in the default Kubuntu release so a simple tarball won;t do it (I think).

So what I want to do is make a very simple .deb package for my own use that will check/install the depends and then the files.

In total it's six servicemenus and two .sh script files that I want to put into the existing ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/ and into a new folder ~/.kde/scripts/.

I've looked through several How To's but they're all really complex.

Is there an easy way to do this?

So far my control file looks like:

Package: youtubeservicemenuVersion: 0.1
Section: web 
Priority: optional
Architecture: all
Essential: no
Depends: xclip, youtube-dl, kdialog
Pre-Depends: dolphin
Recommends:  
Suggests: 
Installed-Size: 
Maintainer: 
Description: Service menu to automate downloading youtube videos and audio.
.

[OneLine]

Maybe

Guides:

- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete
- http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/
- https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-packag...m/+archive/ppa


I would...an example

Packages needed:

-dpkg-dev

Description: Debian package development tools
This package provides the development tools (including dpkg-source)
required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages.
.
Most Debian source packages will require additional tools to build;
for example, most packages need make and the C compiler gcc.

- debhelper

Description: helper programs for debian/rules
A collection of programs that can be used in a debian/rules file to
automate common tasks related to building debian packages. Programs
are included to install various files into your package, compress
files, fix file permissions, integrate your package with the debian
menu system, debconf, doc-base, etc. Most debian packages use debhelper
as part of their build process.

Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debhelper/

- fakeroot

Description: tool for simulating superuser privileges
fakeroot provides a fake "root environment" by means of LD_PRELOAD and
SysV IPC (or TCP) trickery. It puts wrappers around getuid(), chown(),
stat(), and other file-manipulation functions, so that unprivileged
users can (for instance) populate .deb archives with root-owned files;
various build tools use fakeroot for this by default.

Directories and files

Making a direcory: kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover-0.1.
Making the sub directories: debian, desktop, scripts.

That is:

kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover-0.1
/debian
/desktop
/scripts

The desktop sub directory has the service menu desktop files.

The script sub directory has the script files.

The debian sub directory has files: changelog, compat, control, kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover.install, rules

changelog

kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover (0.1) null; urgency=low

  * Initial release.

 -- You Know <not_telling@mail.om>  Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:13:00 +0300

compat

8

control

Source: kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover
Section: kde
Priority: extra
Maintainer: You Know <not_telling@mail.om>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0)
Standards-Version: 3.9.3
Homepage: <insert the upstream URL, if relevant>

Package: kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover
Architecture: all
Depends: dolphin | konqueror, perl
Description: a video thumbnail remover
 A KDE service menu to remove selected video thumbnails.
 . 
 This service menu is using a Perl scrip ( video-thumbnail-remover.pl ) 
 to remove the selected video thumbnails.

kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover.install

desktop/*  /home/oneline/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/
scripts/* /home/oneline/.bin/

man dh_install:

...
FILES
debian/package.install
List the files to install into each package and the directory they should be installed to. The format is a
set of lines, where each line lists a file or files to install, and at the end of the line tells the
directory it should be installed in. The name of the files (or directories) to install should be given
relative to the current directory, while the installation directory is given relative to the package build
directory. You may use wildcards in the names of the files to install (in v3 mode and above).

Note that if you list exactly one filename or wildcard-pattern on a line by itself, with no explicit
destination, then dh_install will automatically guess the destination to use, the same as if the --autodest
option were used.
...

rules

#!/usr/bin/make -f

%:
	dh $@

Wrapping the package

The Konsole is in the kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover-0.1. The command is:

dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot -us -uc

.../kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover-0.1$ dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: source package kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by You Know <not_telling@mail.om>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
dpkg-source --before-build kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover-0.1
fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean
dh_testdir
dh_auto_clean
...
dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: building package `kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover' in `../kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover_0.1_all.deb'.
dpkg-genchanges -b >../kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover_0.1_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code
dpkg-source --after-build kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover-0.1
dpkg-buildpackage: binary only upload (no source included)

There is a deb package: kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover_0.1_all.deb

Testing

Installing...





Now there is:

$ apt-cache show kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover
Package: kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: kde
Installed-Size: 58
Maintainer: You Know <not_telling@mail.om>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.1
Depends: dolphin | konqueror, perl
Description: a video thumbnail remover
A KDE service menu to remove selected video thumbnails.
.
This service menu is using a Perl scrip ( video-thumbnail-remover.pl )
to remove the selected video thumbnails.
Homepage: <insert the upstream URL, if relevant>

$ dpkg -L kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover
/.
/home
/home/oneline
/home/oneline/.bin
/home/oneline/.bin/video-thumbnail-remover.pl
/home/oneline/.kde
/home/oneline/.kde/share
/home/oneline/.kde/share/kde4
/home/oneline/.kde/share/kde4/services
/home/oneline/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus
/home/oneline/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/video-thumbnail-remover.desktop
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover
/usr/share/doc/kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover/changelog.gz

It seems to work...



Note

At this case the user's home was used as:

...I want to put into the existing ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/ and into a new folder ~/.kde/scripts/...

The installation needs the roots rights - installed files are owned by the root:

$ ls -l /home/oneline/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/video-thumbnail-remover.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 398 Sep 30 14:32 /home/oneline/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/video-thumbnail-remover.desktop

[oshunluvr]

WOW, Ok thanks! I'll work on that this week....

..once I work out a bug in my script.

Thanks again.

[OneLine]

The /opt option

With the Debian package management the installation to the user's home is a bit clumsy. There are other options.

By the http://techbase.kde.org/Development/..._Service_Menus

...These servicemenu files are found in

1) $KDEHOME/share/services/ServiceMenus,
2) the directory KDE was installed to
3) or any directory listed in the $KDEDIRS environment variable...

An alternative to the $KDEDIRS a.k.a Drag&Drop

1) Install the desktop files and executables to the /opt

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...ystem/opt.html :

This directory is reserved for all the software and add-on packages that are not part of the default installation...

At here the kde-service-menu-thumbnail-remover.install:

desktop/* /opt/kde4/share/services/ServiceMenus/
scripts/* /opt/bin/

2) Drag&Drop the /opt/kde4/share/services/ServiceMenus/ to the ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/. Pick the link option.

$ ls -l ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 oneline oneline 37 Sep 30 20:24 ServiceMenus -> /opt/kde4/share/services/ServiceMenus

3) Use.

The /opt/bin/ directory could be added to the $PATH or the desktop files Exec key could be pointing to the script file; at here the video-thumbnail-remover.desktop has:

...
Exec=perl /opt/bin/video-thumbnail-remover.pl "%U"
...