Learning dpkg

Link

Hacking

Before

$ ls build
my-awesome-package

Setup

• macOS: Run brew bundle Hint: install homebrew first
• Run bin/build

After

$ ls build
my-awesome-package     my-awesome-package.deb

Then you can...

dpkg -i my-awesome-package.deb

...wherever you want!

To be continued...

I feel pretty good about this setup currently. For simple scripts, this should work great, and it doesn't seem like too much to ask that a developer have brew installed on their Mac. However, I would like to look into alternatives for easy linux distribution, maybe even dropping debian packages in favor of something more universal.

Misc

• Alternatives to installing dpkg
  • https://www.npmjs.com/package/debify
  • https://www.npmjs.com/package/unipkg
• Creating .deb's with less boilerplate
  • https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/12/15/howto-build-debian-package-containing-simple-shell-scripts/
  • https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-deb
• Alternatives to .deb
  • https://appimage.org
  • https://docs.snapcraft.io/pre-built-apps/6739