How to Install fpm

What is fpm?

fpm is a tool designed to make the creation of OS packages, including Debian packages, simple.

It’s built on the following principlesThis is verbatim from the official fpm documentation.:

• If fpm is not helping you make packages easily, then there is a bug in fpm.
• If you are having a bad time with fpm, then there is a bug in fpm.
• If the documentation is confusing, then this is a bug in fpm.

Sounds good? It is.

fpm can build Debian packages from many sources, including tarballs and zip files, directories, and packages for Perl (cpan), Python (python), Ruby (gem), NodeJS (npm), and several more.