[xubuntu-users] Developer Asks: How To Submit Linux Software To Software Center?

[Petter Adsen]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 07:33:34 -0400
Jesse Palser <jessepalsermailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 06/11/2015 07:26 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 12:59:04 +0200
> > Ralf ranfyy <ranfyy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 2015-06-11 12:54 GMT+02:00 Jesse Palser
> >> <jessepalsermailinglists at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the reply.
> >>> All the games are open-source freeware with source code included.
> >>> We would love to see some of our games in Software Center.
> >>> Just are confused about how to submit...
> >>>
> >>> Jesse
> >>>
> >> This should be good starting point:
> >>    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages
> > And while you're doing that, if you are already building .deb
> > packages, consider making a request to have them added to the
> > Debian repos as well. Then they can potentially migrate to a whole
> > host of distributions, and a lot more people can try them out
> > easily.
> >
> > Info on how to do this can be easily found on the Debian wiki.
> >
> > Petter
> >
> >
> >
> Hi,
> 
> We tried building a *.DEB package for "LettersFall 5" a while ago.
> It was a total failure and extremely confusing.
> Currently we implement a makefile for our Linux games.
> 
> We were hoping there was some easy method to get games into Software
> Center? Thanks!

You will not be able to do this without supplying .debs. I suggest you
take a look at the Debian wiki, there are extremely good guides for
making them there, along with all the information you need to have the
package submitted to the repos. Most of these steps you will need to
take anyway to have them in the Ubuntu repos, so you might as well
start at the Debian wiki.

There are people who will be able to help you make .debs, but I'm not
sure what mailing list I would go to for help. Check the wiki, and
maybe try a development list if there isn't one for package maintainers.

Petter

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