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Install Multiple Programs With Metapackage
Create a package that installs 20 programs. They are the latest versions, and no questions are asked. Programs are installed automatically using a metapackage.
A work in progress! This example is extracted from my notes for Ubuntu. Even though I have created metapackages with this method, the steps below have not been tested in the excact order described here.
© 2010 Tero Karvinen http://www.iki.fi/karvinen
Package Contents
$ mkdir metapack # folder name is the name of the deb package $ cd metapack $ mkdir DEBIAN
$ cd DEBIAN $ nano control
Package: metapack Version: 1 Maintainer: YOUR_NAME_AND_CONTACT_INFO_HERE Depends: gzip, zip, bzip2 Architecture: all Priority: optional Description: SHORT DESCRIPTION HERE - ONE SENTENCE WRITE YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE. . For info on metapackages, see http://www.iki.fi/karvinen/install_multiple_programs_with_metapackage.html
Compile to DEB
$ cd ../../ $ dpkg-deb -b metapack/ metapack.deb
Install
$ sudo gdebi --non-interactive metapack.deb