A tool to create lightweight deb packages.
By default it creates deb files for installation in the
Termux Linux environment, but by specifying
e.g. --prefix /usr
a deb file can be created for any .deb-using
distribution such as Debian or Ubuntu.
Install it with apt install termux-create-package
to use inside
Termux.
If you want to run this tool in a non-Termux environment (Linux/macOS),
install with pip3 install termux-create-package
after making sure
that Python 3 is installed.
This tool expects packages to be defined in JSON manifest files. Run
termux-create-package -h
for more information.
An example manifest file is given below:
{
"name": "myproject",
"version": "1.0",
"homepage": "http://mysite.com",
"maintainer": "@mynick",
"description": "my description",
"arch": "all",
"depends": ["dependency"],
"files" :{
"myfile.py": "bin/myfile",
"mylib.so": "lib/mylib.so"
}
}
The fields are as follows:
- name: The name of your package.
- version: The version of the package.
- maintainer: Optional informative field specifying who maintains the package.
- homepage: Optional informative field specifying a homepage URL.
- description: Optional informative field containing a short description of the package.
- depends: Comma-separated list of packages that this package depends
on. Will be installed automatically when this package is installed
using
apt
. - arch: Set to
all
if the package only contains architecture-independent data, or one of arm/i686/aarch64/x86_64 as appropriate. - files: Files relative to the manifest file that should be
included in the package. The keys are paths (relative to the current
directory) to include and the values are paths where the files should
end up at installation (relative to the
$PREFIX
path in Termux where everything is installed under).
Run the following command to create a package file named
${name}_${version}_all.deb
:
$ termux-create-package manifest.json
This can then be installed in Termux using the command:
apt install ./my-package-file.deb
or may be added to a custom apt repository created with termux-apt-repo or any other available tool.