Alternative way to generate .deb packages for Maemo
Posted on Tue 20 November 2007 in HowTo, Linux, Maemo (EN), Programmazione, Ubuntu (EN) • Tagged with debian, maemo, nokia, package
Thanks to Mohammed Hassan now I know an alternative (alternative to the official howto) way to generate a .deb package for Maemo.
If the package already exist in the Debian repositories, you can get the
.dsc
file (for example in an ftp like this:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/s/spim/ ) and execute the
following commands:
dget -x DSC_FILE_URL
It will download the package and will unpack it in the current folder. You have to enter in the created folder and edit the debian/* files to personalize settings, mantainer data, add deps ecc...
When you're done, you can generate the package with the usual command:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot