Getting Started with DEB MetaPackaging and Repositories

Here is a quick collection of links for hh-laptops.deb project. Haaga-Helia gives all new TIKO students a laptop. HH-laptops.deb is a metapackage to install software used in Haaga-Helia courses.

HH-laptops.deb project homepage

Karvinen 2010: Install Multiple Programs With Metapackage http://www.iki.fi/karvinen/install_multiple_programs_with_metapackage.html

Aoki & Rodin 2007: Debian New Maintainers’ Guide http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

Canonical Ltd. and members of the Ubuntu Documentation Project 2010: The Ubuntu Packaging Guide https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete

Mattila et al 2008: Asetuksia tekevä deb lisää universen sources.list.d/universe.list http://myy.helia.fi/~karte/otherauthors/linux-projekti-2008-mattila-muttilainen-siven/myy.haaga-helia.fi/_a0502611/linux_projekti/apt_source/apt_source_ohjeet.txt

dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz

McAnarney et al 2010: RepositoriesPersonal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Personal

Sybyus et al 2010: Personal Package Archives https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA

Ylinen & Pesonen & Vesimäki 2010: Linux projekti (hh-laptops.deb) http://myy.haaga-helia.fi/~a0602284/linux-projekti/

minicom - serial terminal (Atte Pakkanen)

pidgin - multipriotocol instant messenger (Atte Pakkanen)

ghex - hexaeditor (Atte Pakkanen) (or khex)

(Out of scope for this project: vmware ilmainen vmware server vmwaren sivuilta, eri kuviin oracle xe otn.oracle.com, db2 express c 9.7)

Who to ask: Teachers: Juhani Merilinna, Jukka Juslin, Juhani Välimäki, others. Lead users in students: Matias Korhonen, Jason Brower.