Debian packaging scripts for GeoNode

This repository contains the scripts used to build the .deb (Ubuntu) package for GeoNode. If you are interested in modifying GeoNode itself you may find http://github.com/GeoNode/geonode more relevant.

Building

To produce a .deb package which can be redistributed:

• Install the debian packaging tools:

  apt-get install debhelper devscripts

• Acquire a GeoNode tar.gz archive (by either building it from sources, or from http://dev.geonode.org/release/ ) and unpack it, so that you have a directory structure like so:

  geonode-deb/
     + debian/
     + GeoNode-{version}

• Run the debuild tool to build the package:

  debuild -uc -us -A

• geonode-{version}.deb will be produced in the parent directory (one level above the directory where you cloned this project).

Installation

As described in the GeoNode manual, you can access OpenGeo's APT repository to get pre-built GeoNode packages. However, if you want to build a package and install that instead, you can avoid the need for a repository of your own by using the following command:

dpkg -i geonode-{version}.deb

If dpkg reports an error about unmet dependencies, you can issue the following command to fetch dependencies and re-attempt the installation:

apt-get install -f