Packaging and Deployment with Ubuntu

After extensively customising some software on one of our hosts, I realised I was staring down the barrel of repeating the same procedure another twenty times. No thanks. Instead, I decided to package the customisations and install that package onto each host. One small problem: I had absolutely no idea how to create Ubuntu packages or distribute them. Several hours of trawling through documentation later -- none of which ever quite told me *enough* -- I pulled together two wiki articles that cover the whole process end to end. Hopefully they'll save you the same headache. * [Package your software](http://wiki.xeriom.net/w/CreatingPackagesForUbuntu) * [Create a personal Ubuntu package repository](http://wiki.xeriom.net/w/RunningYourOwnUbuntuPackageRepository) * [Documentation for Xeriom packaged software](http://wiki.xeriom.net/w/XeriomPackageDocumentation) If you spot mistakes, please do correct them -- that's the whole point of a wiki.