Lesson 11

Dates: 4/10/2014
Application compilation and installation on Linux
Linux for Engineering and IT Applications


Application and control files in a .deb package


Exercise
  • Download package mg by using apt-get command: 
    sudo apt-get install -d mg
    Create directory PKG and extract the package files into it: 
    cp /var/cache/apt/archives/mg_*.deb .
mkdir PKG
dpkg -x mg_*.deb PKG
    See the directory tree of PKG 
    tree PKG
  • Extract the control file from the package: 
    cd PKG
dpkg -e ../mg_*.deb
    See the content of of newly created directory DEBIAN: 
    ls DEBIAN
    You should see the control file, control, md5sum and the scripts: postinst, postrm, prerm.
  • See the content of file control: 
    less DEBIAN/control


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