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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers prepare a tar package Post 302705377 by DGPickett on Monday 24th of September 2012 04:50:11 PM
Old 09-24-2012
Well, 'ldd -rsv' will tell you every library used by an executable, and 'strace' can tell you every file a running app opens (very educational). Usually, libraries go in a 'lib' dir and that dir is in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and executables, script or compiled, go in a 'bin' dir that is in the $PATH variable. Throwing everything in /bin and /lib is a bad practice. Directories /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib are popular, but it is ok to keep every app separate. If you create the desired relative path on the tar end, it will create the relative directories wherever untarred. You can write and include a little script to move them from the untar directory, if that feels more comfortable.

Packaging like an rpm is a bit past me, and I prefer simple archives. Compression is nice, too. New tar has that, or you can use zip, or gzip the tar (.tar.gz or .tgz).
 

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dh_auto_install

DH_AUTO_INSTALL(1)						     Debhelper							DH_AUTO_INSTALL(1)

NAME

       dh_auto_install - automatically runs make install or similar

SYNOPSIS

       dh_auto_install [buildsystemoptions] [debhelperoptions] [--params]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_auto_install is a debhelper program that tries to automatically install built files. It does so by running the appropriate command for
       the build system it detects the package uses. For example, if there's a Makefile and it contains a install target, then this is done by
       running make (or MAKE, if the environment variable is set). If there is a setup.py or Build.PL, it is used. Note that the Ant build system
       does not support installation, so dh_auto_install will not install files built using Ant.

       Unless --destdir option is specified, the files are installed into debian/package/ if there is only one binary package. In the multiple
       binary package case, the files are instead installed into debian/tmp/, and should be moved from there to the appropriate package build
       directory using dh_install(1).

       DESTDIR is used to tell make where to install the files.  If the Makefile was generated by MakeMaker from a Makefile.PL, it will
       automatically set PREFIX=/usr too, since such Makefiles need that.

       This is intended to work for about 90% of packages. If it doesn't work, or tries to use the wrong install target, you're encouraged to skip
       using dh_auto_install at all, and just run make install manually.

OPTIONS

       See "BUILD SYSTEM OPTIONS" in debhelper(7) for a list of common build system selection and control options.

       --destdir=directory
	   Install files into the specified directory. If this option is not specified, destination directory is determined automatically as
	   described in the "DESCRIPTION" section.

       -- params
	   Pass params to the program that is run, after the parameters that dh_auto_install usually passes.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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