.tar.gz to .deb? Any Programs?

badgerbox76 · 02-18-2006, 08:47 PM

I was wondering if there where any program that could make a .tar.gz file into a working .deb file

jschiwal · 02-18-2006, 09:10 PM

Examine the Makefile. There may be a "make deb" target.

HappyTux · 02-18-2006, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by badgerbox76

I was wondering if there where any program that could make a .tar.gz file into a working .deb file

You can use checkinstall for the make install step to create a .deb alternatively if there is a debian directory with a rule file in there then use fakeroot debian/rules binary to make the package.

pixellany · 02-19-2006, 08:13 AM

I may be missing something, but.....
tar and gz are suffixes relating to compression and archiving
deb is a suffix for debian package manager
file.tar.gz could have somefiles.deb inside---n'est-ce pas?
Could also have somefiles.rpm---in this case, you could convert with alien.

hw-tph · 02-19-2006, 02:32 PM

dh_make. apt-get install dh-make should do it. Also read up on the Debian policy manual.

Håkan