CREDIT LINK :: https://askubuntu.com/questions/33413/how-to-create-a-meta-package-that-automatically-installs-other-packages PERSON :: ajmitch A meta-package like this can be created with a tool called equivs which will create a package with just dependency information. First, create a directory: mkdir my-metapackage cd my-metapackage/ Now run the program: equivs-control ns-control 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: Section: misc Priority: optional Standards-Version: 3.9.1 Package: my-metapackage Version: 1.0 Depends: openssh-server, gedit Description: This package installes an ssh server and a text editor The Long description of this package ends with a newline! (Just an example, you should include more information) And finally, build the package by running equivs-build ns-control Your package is located at my-metapackage/my-metapackage_1.0_all.deb. 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. To create a source .changes file that you can upload to a PPA, extract & build the source package with dpkg-source -x my-metapackage_1.0.dsc cd my-metapackage-1.0 debuild -S 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