Re: Debian package examples for Java software

Mechtilde Stehmann <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Sep 2024 19:05:09 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.java
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello Peter,

Am 14.09.24 um 18:07 schrieb Peter Bittner:
> Thank you for responding, Mechtilde!
> 
>> Please tell us, what you want to package. Then we can look for a similar one.
> 
> I packaged software 20 years ago as a Debian package at my former
> workplace. IIRC, it was just a bunch of shell and Python scripts,
> maybe a few binaries. Back then I had to scale rolling out software on
> a fleet of machines. I basically like to do the same again, and I'm
> looking for good examples.

If you tell us what you want to package, we can tell you a good example 
out of more than 50.000 packages

> 
>> Normally all packages are installable as a privileged user like sudo or
>> root. This means installing with apt install or using synaptic.
> 
> Yep, I understand. But is there a way to install software without sudo
> or being root? E.g. when my package installs software only in a
> location where it has write access. The scenario is, I have users that
> must install the software on a managed machine. The system
> administrators manage the operating system as such, the users install
> and run their software in user space.

As far as I know NO WAY to do so.

> 
> Peter
> 

Regartds
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Mechtilde Stehmann
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