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CREDIT LINK :: https://askubuntu.com/questions/33413/how-to-create-a-meta-package-that-automatically-installs-other-packages
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PERSON :: ajmitch
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A meta-package like this can be created with a tool called equivs which will create a package with just dependency information.
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First, create a directory:
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mkdir my-metapackage
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cd my-metapackage/
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Now run the program:
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equivs-control ns-control
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It will create a file called ns-control, open this file with your text editor. The control file that you generate should have its Depends or Recommends lines modified to depend on the packages that you want installed:
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Section: misc
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Priority: optional
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Standards-Version: 3.9.1
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Package: my-metapackage
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Version: 1.0
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Depends: openssh-server, gedit
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Description: This package installes an ssh server and a text editor
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The Long description of this package ends with a newline!
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(Just an example, you should include more information)
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And finally, build the package by running
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equivs-build ns-control
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Your package is located at my-metapackage/my-metapackage_1.0_all.deb.
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If you wish to also create a source package, the --full option can be passed to equivs-build, e.g. equivs-build --full ns-control. This will use debuild & also create .dsc & .tar.gz files.
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To create a source .changes file that you can upload to a PPA, extract & build the source package with
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dpkg-source -x my-metapackage_1.0.dsc
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cd my-metapackage-1.0
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debuild -S
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If the Maintainer that you set in ns-control matches your GPG key, it should build & sign the my-metapackage_1.0_source.changes file for you to dput to your PPA
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