makedeb
A simplicity-focused packaging tool for Debian archives (by makedeb)
fpm
Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity. (by jordansissel)
| makedeb | fpm | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 38 | |
| 455 | 11,046 | |
| 1.3% | - | |
| 3.7 | 3.6 | |
| 8 months ago | 9 days ago | |
| Shell | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT-like |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
makedeb
Posts with mentions or reviews of makedeb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-30.
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Introducing Mist: An AUR-helper like application for Debian and Ubuntu based systems
Mist comes into play just like you'd expect an AUR helper to. Like how you have makepkg on Arch Linux, makedeb exists for the Debian/Ubuntu side, which is also what powers Mist.
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Installed WINE, Ubuntu commited suicide. Guess that's goodbye 👋
This is why the makedeb, MPR, Pacstall, and una projects are so exciting. They could bring that robustness and ease of installation to Ubuntu. Hopefully some day the MPR becomes as popular as the AUR.
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makedeb 14.0.0: Create Debian packages directly from PKGBUILDs
makedeb: Website, GitHub
- Is flatpak really the future?
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darktable CR3 build in AUR(archlinux)
If you are not on an archlinux(or arch-based) distro, there is a tool for converting the arch package into .deb. The ones I could find: - makedeb. - pacstall. This has a separate script for converting - https://github.com/pacstall/paconvert
- I use Debian btw
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AUR far easier than Debian installation system?
It's called makedeb: https://github.com/makedeb/makedeb
- What is your preferred way of getting up to date packages and software that is not in the official repository?
- Makedeb – Create Debian Archives from PKGBUILDs
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[Product Release] Introducing the Debian User Repository: The AUR for Debian distros (More info in the comments)
Well first things first: makedeb. This was a result of me loving Arch Linux's simple and efficient PKGBUILD format for creating packages. Got tired of Debian packaging, so I make Arch's work.
fpm
Posts with mentions or reviews of fpm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-08.
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Debian Discusses Vendoring yet Again
If you ever revisit that decision, check out FPM. It can shave off a few of the rough edges related to packaging: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
- Fpm – Packaging Made Simple
- PackagingCon – a conference only for software package management
- Makefile to .deb
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Been adding a little more polish to my Battle Network/ Smash bros inspired game.
The easiest way is probably FPM: https://fpm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Zrok: open-source peer to peer sharing with ability to selfhost
There is definitely a lot more to building a proper package for wider distribution, but there are some great tools out there for folks wanting to get into it that make it more approachable. I've done my fair share with fpm when learning how the proverbial sausage is made.
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Can i create deb file from source code?
Check out https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
- List of Apps I need that are not in repo or flathub
- Can someone point me in the right direction for automating RPM builds?
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What's the deal with Slackware?
I use RedHat based environments for work. I've had good success creating my own yum repo and building RPM packages with Effing package management. FPM can handle packages for most distros so if you want to publish a linux app it is an easy way to provide it in multiple formats.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing makedeb and fpm you can also consider the following projects:
pacstall - An AUR-inspired package manager for Ubuntu
Linuxbrew
mpm - makedeb package manager
Homebrew-cask - 🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
lfs-scripts - Automated script to build Multilib LFS system + livecd
omnibus-ruby - Easily create full-stack installers for your project across a variety of platforms.
mprweb - Hosting platform for the makedeb Package Repository (MPR)
CocoaPods - The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
flat-manager - Manager for flatpak repositories
distroless - 🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.
makedeb-get - Manage packages for makedeb
tito - A tool for managing rpm based git projects.