GSoC qualification: Make CCExtractor more linux standard compliant

[cfsmp3]

This task gives you enough points to qualify (but remember that your proposal still needs to be good, etc).

CCExtractor is written in pure C, it uses external hard-linked libraries and it is designed to be portable to different platforms. Because of that we have multiple building scripts which somebody should maintain. The task is to create

Autoconf scripts
Man pages
.tgz, .deb, .rpm, .tar.xz (archlinux) installation packages

[Izaron]

We just need to build package from built binary from linux/build-static.sh
.deb - just rewrite outdated https://github.com/CCExtractor/ccextractor/blob/master/package_creators/debian.sh remove REQUIRES and so on
.rpm - http://meinit.nl/creating-rpm-some-binary, but we can also build .rmp from Debian/Ubuntu

[Izaron]

Would you like to have official packages for the most popular linux distros?
I mean, if everybody will be able to launch Linix distro, write in terminal line as sudo apt-get install ccextractor and get binary? :)

[Izaron]

https://www.linux.com/learn/easy-package-creation-checkinstall
https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall
https://github.com/CCExtractor/ccextractor/blob/master/docs/using_cmake_build.txt
Can be helpful

[alexandrumc]

I'm starting to do it.

I'd like to work on this

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[pranavsid98]

I am interested in this issue. I would like to work on this.

Pranav

[cfsmp3]

To make it clear - we don't want to pregenerated packages, man, etc: We want scripts that generate them automatically, otherwise we'd been stuck with old versions really quickly.

[fandango96]

Just wanted to add that Arch already has a package for ccextractor in the AUR. So, users of Arch and Arch-based distributions can install it using yaourt. Link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ccextractor/
In fact, I'd be surprised if it didn't actually - I can't remember the last time I didn't do
$ yaourt -S <package-name>
to install packages I use.
However, just to be clear, an official .pkg.tar.xz / .pkg.tar.gz would still be useful if, for some reason, the user doesn't have yaourt installed and only uses pacman. It would also be useful in the case that the AUR package stops being maintained or is removed (this is very rare, but a possibility).