On 10/22/18 12:36 PM, Damir Porobic wrote: > Hi All, > > > I was not sure to which Mailing list my question belongs so I'm writing > here, if I should use a different list, let me know. > > > Currently I'm trying to create a .deb package for my Application and I'm > kind of stuck with packaging a shared library that I use. The shared > library is not available via any public repository, so it can't be > installed the usual way, but it's open source and I build it from source > and install before I package the application. It's installed under > //usr/local//.
You must create a Debian package that installs the lib in a proper directly under /usr/lib. That's the correct way to do things. > I was able to build the .deb package but when I install it on a machine, > it fails to start with the message that it was not able to find my > shared library. Which means that you haven't installed the lib at the correct place. > Is there a way to deploy my shared library with the .deb package without > my shared library being available on public repos? If yes, could you > point me to an example? Get the source package from any library in Debian and have a look how its made. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
