Fresh Ubuntu Packaging Guide Goodness

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I just set up a daily build for the Ubuntu Packaging Guide. To get the latest goodness, simply:

  1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-packaging-guide-team/ppa
  2. sudo apt-get update
  3. sudo apt-get install ubuntu-packaging-guide
  4. <point your browser to /usr/share/doc/ubuntu-packaging-guide>

Once installed, you get a handy packaging guide in PDF, HTML, Single HTML and ePub formats.

If you have any feedback from the guides, please file bug reports. Also can we need some help massaging the old packaging guide into reStructuredText. Have a look at the open bug reports to see what we’re currently working on and looking for.

  • http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/ shrinivasan

    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-packaging-guide

    is not working for me.

    step 1 and 2 are fine.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-packaging-guide-team/ppa
    Executing: gpg –ignore-time-conflict –no-options –no-default-keyring –secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg –trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg –keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv A61D82F9B450ECFAF83418883FD76A59F40653CD
    gpg: requesting key F40653CD from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
    gpg: key F40653CD: “Launchpad PPA for Ubuntu Packaging Guide Team” not changed
    gpg: Total number processed: 1
    gpg: unchanged: 1

    Here is the error I get

    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-packaging-guide
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    E: Unable to locate package ubuntu-packaging-guide

    I have ubuntu 10.10

    Please check that.

    • https://launchpad.net/~dholbach Daniel Holbach

      Yes, that’s a known problem – right now there are no packages for maverick and older releases, because we need python-sphinx (>= 1.0) to build the package.

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  • Edoardo

    I’d like to have the guide but I don’t want to install the package. Is there a way to download it? Can i find it in the deb package?

    Thanks for your work ;)

  • http://andregondim.eti.br/ André Gondim

    Any idea to l10n?

    Cheers!! ;)

  • http://viajemotu.wordpress.com/ chilicuil

    Just wondering how I could create the package for myself, I’ve downloaded the branch, but bzr complains when I run $ bzr bd — -S -uc -us #http://pastebin.com/FciicMXr in an attempt to get the .dsc file, I’m trying to get it done with pbuilder

    • https://launchpad.net/~dholbach Daniel Holbach

      Try:

      bzr bd –native — -S -us -uc

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  • http://www.multimediaboom.com/ vijesh

    The works in this post is great. wish to know more about its working processes. Thanks for the wonderful post…..