<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">A copy of your buildlog in preparing your package may offer some hints. If you could provide it? _______________________________________ Roderick B. Greening, B.Sc. Paradise, NL Canada E-mail/MSN: roderick.greening@gmail.com LP: launchpad.net/~roderick-greening Wiki: wiki.ubuntu.com/rgreening Blog: roderick-greening.blogspot.com Twitter: twitter.com/rgreening On April 3, 2009 3:48:35 pm Donald Raikes wrote: > I am just starting to work with ubuntu packaging, and have several > opensource application which I wish to create packages for. > > I started with the ftimes program <http://ftimes.sourceforge.net> > > I downloaded the source tarball, unpacked it and ran dh_make on it. I > edited the necessary files in the debian folder, and ran debduild to > create the .dsc file. I next ran pbuilder --build on the .dsc file, and > after a few iterations and adding some packages to my chroot > environment, it compiled fine and generated the source and binry > packages. > > Next I ran sudo dpkg -i ftimes_3.8.0-0ubuntu1.deb, and it says it was > setup, but I cannot find any evidence of the program on my system. I ran > updatedb and then did a locate ftimes and it onlly finds the sources and > the pbuilder results. > > How can I figure out what is going wrong with my package? > > Any tips/pointers would be appreciated. > > > > -- > Thanks in advance, > > Donald Raikes <raptor@eagles-wing.net> > http://www.eagles-wing.net </body></html>