<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> To learn how to package I have followed the instructions on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/02/how-to-prepare-a-compiled-application-for-ubuntu-software-center/">http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/02/how-to-prepare-a-compiled-application-for-ubuntu-software-center/</a>, replacing Dungeon with ubuntumanualnl. I have a question on step 7: Archive the source package. In my terminal I did this: ~/ubuntumanualnl$ tar Cxf ubuntumanualnl-12.04ubuntu1-debsrc.tar.gz *.dsc *.changes *.tar.gz Terminal output: tar: This doesn't look like a tar archive tar: Skip everything until next header tar: ubuntumanualnl_12.04ubuntu1_source.changes: Does not exist in archive tar: ubuntumanualnl_12.04ubuntu1.tar.gz: Does not exist in archive tar: Stopped because of earlier errors My question is: Could it be that something went wrong in the previous step: debuild -b > <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> Here is some terminal output: dpkg-deb: building package `ubuntumanualnl' in `../ubuntumanualnl_12.04ubuntu1_amd64.deb <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 (Linux)"> <style type="text/css">  </style>or <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> cd ubuntumanualnl /ubuntumanualnl-12.04ubuntu1> run debuild -S (Successfully signed dsc and changes files) The *.dsc, *.tar.gz, *.changes are present in the directory ubuntumanualnl <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 (Linux)"> <style type="text/css">  </style> Hannie P.s. it is not cxf, but Cxf here: dungeon/ directory as the Debian source <tt>tar cxf dungeon-1980.0-debsrc.tar.gz *.dsc *.changes *.tar.gz</tt> There also is a spelling error in "Ubuntu Packaging Guide, Release 0.3.2 bzr367 quantal1 (I downloaded ubuntu-packaging-guide.pdf), where dh-make should be dh_make (twice). </body> </html>