How to use this to "actually" install Srain on pop os ( based on Ubuntu)?

[aasutossh]

On [Installation](https://doc.srain.im/en/latest/install.html#debian) page it says:

Move the debian directory to srain’s project root directory, perform the following commands to build a deb package:

It's unclear.

[tomac4t]

@aasutossh Are you someone in IRC who asked how to install Srain on Pop!_OS before? This document more about how to packing a deb package. If you want to install the deb package which build by yourself, you can do that like: copy the debian folder to the srain folder, and then:

dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc; 
cd ..;
sudo apt-get install -f ./`find -name "srain_*.deb"`;

Note that you need to install the dependencies which can be found on debian/crontrol. Also note that some Ubuntu packages' name may different than Debian.

[aasutossh]

That was me, I was experimenting with my os, I lost (didn't document) the info.
Thanks for this again.

Edit: wasn't there somewhere make command to build it?

[tomac4t]

Do you means that make: command not found?

You can install the make package via:

sudo apt-get install make

[aasutossh]

Do you means that make: command not found?

I mean wasn't there make install or similar command to build and install it?

[SilverRainZ]

@aasutossh It was given in the doc you mentioned: https://doc.srain.im/en/latest/install.html#building

[tomac4t]

Hey @aasutossh, You may have a problem to package a .deb file due to debhelper compat level were specified both in debian/compat and debian/control files. You can delete the debian/compat file and try again. Sorry for inconvenience.

[tomac4t]

BTW, We add a Github workflow to upload the Debian package which builds in Github actions, so It's will be easy to install or remove srain now:

# download the latest package from release page: https://github.com/SrainApp/srain/releases
wget https://github.com/SrainApp/srain/releases/download/1.1.0/srain_1.1.0_amd64.deb
# install srain package
sudo apt install -f ./srain_1.1.0_amd64.deb
# remove srain package
sudo apt remove srain

[aasutossh]

Good stuff. Thank you for the info.