Debian

Instructions on creating the Debian .deb package:

ensure you have a working build environment; for example, see Running a development version of Gramps
in addition, you'll need several more tools:

sudo apt-get install devscripts
sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
sudo apt-get install fakeroot
sudo apt-get install debhelper
sudo apt-get install libgconf2-dev

check out the necessary version; for example, to build the .deb file for GRAMPS version 2.2.9, you'll want to run:

mkdir ~/gramps
cd ~/gramps
svn co https://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gramps/tags/gramps-2.2.9

confirm that everything builds:

./autogen.sh
make

create the .deb package:

cd debian
export DEBEMAIL='[email protected]'
export DEBFULLNAME='Stephane Charette'
dch -v 2.2.9-1 "New upstream release"
cd ..
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

Remember to modify DEBEMAIL and DEBFULLNAME to reflect your e-mail and name.

release the .deb files:

cd ..
ls *.deb

Note the 2 files gramps_2.2.9-1_all.deb and gramps-help_2.2.9-1_all.deb, both of which need to be uploaded to ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/incoming/.

The details on how things are going to be packaged into deb files, what are the dependencies, the pre- and post- install and removal scripts etc are under debian/ directory. Please refer to the Debian New Maintainers' Guide for further details.

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