create deb package from tar.gz

ccc · 01-30-2015, 03:10 PM

hi

I need teamviewer QuickSupport as deb package, but can download teamviewer_qs.tar.gz only:

http://download.teamviewer.com/downl...ewer_qs.tar.gz

How to create deb package from teamviewer_qs.tar.gz?

I've tried to create deb package, but it doesn't work:

Code:

# tar xvfz teamviewer_qs.tar.gz 
# cd teamviewer9qs
# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
# checkinstall

checkinstall 1.6.2, Copyright 2009 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
           This software is released under the GNU GPL.


The package documentation directory ./doc-pak does not exist. 
Should I create a default set of package docs?  [y]: 

Preparing package documentation...OK

Please write a description for the package.
End your description with an empty line or EOF.
>> 

*****************************************
**** Debian package creation selected ***
*****************************************

This package will be built according to these values: 

0 -  Maintainer: [ root@wheezy01 ]
1 -  Summary: [ Package created with checkinstall 1.6.2 ]
2 -  Name:    [ teamviewer9qs ]
3 -  Version: [ 20150130 ]
4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
5 -  License: [ GPL ]
6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
7 -  Architecture: [ i386 ]
8 -  Source location: [ teamviewer9qs ]
9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
10 - Requires: [  ]
11 - Provides: [ teamviewer9qs ]
12 - Conflicts: [  ]
13 - Replaces: [  ]

Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: 

Installing with make install...

========================= Installation results ===========================
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

AlucardZero · 01-30-2015, 03:24 PM

Teamviewer is not open source. As you should have seen from the output, there is no ./configure; make; make install process for it.
You can just copy the .tar.gz. Wrap it in a shell script that extracts it somewhere if you want. Why does it "need" to be a deb?

evo2 · 02-03-2015, 12:24 AM

Hi,

instructions on how create a quick and dirty "binary only deb" can be found by putting that string into a search engine. Depending on what is in that tar.gz you may even just be able to use alien (in package with same name).

Evo2.

jim_p · 02-03-2015, 12:41 AM

Teamviewer does offer a deb though.

Code:

http://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_i386.deb

32 or 64 with multiarch

Head_on_a_Stick · 02-03-2015, 05:47 AM

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=38976