Building Debian Packages from the Ground Up/

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Installing Programs

Installing Programs

Learn how to install files in the final Debian package.

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Automatic build and installation

Often, there isn’t much to do when building and installing programs. The dh_auto_build step can autodetect a few build systems and can just as automatically use them to build our software. Then dh_auto_install picks up the build artifacts and installs them where they need to go to land in the final Debian package.

At the time of writing, dh_auto_build can detect and use the following build systems:

  • autoconf
  • Perl’s MakeMaker (a Makefile.PL that generates a Makefile)
  • Plain Makefiles that support build and install targets (with DESTDIR for the installation step)
  • Python’s setuptools installers
  • cmake
  • ant
  • qmake
  • qmake_qt4
  • meson
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