Building debian (*.deb) package from tarball source (*.tar.gz)

1. First, let’s install the necessary tools:

   # sudo apt-get install autotools-dev fakeroot dh-make build-essential

2. Copy your source tree into a directory in /tmp or something else

   # cp -r sources-0.1 /tmp

   # cd /tmp/sources-0.1

3. Now let’s make the debian control files:

   # dh_make --createorig

   Don’t forget to iclude “–createorig” if you don’t have the orig source before.

4. Edit the debian/control file and at least change the Maintainer and Description fields. There are a few other files you will probably want to edit.
5. Then run the following: (don’t use sudo!!)

   # dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

6. At last, if we look in /tmp (one directory up) we see sources-0.1.deb which ready . .