I think he was only asking about packaging a piece of software, not remastering a version of the distribution.  I don&#39;t know how to do it myself, but this was the first reference I found.  <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide</a> and the links it has like <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete</a> and <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Lisa Kachold <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lisakachold@obnosis.com">lisakachold@obnosis.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:54 PM, John <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jharitos@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jharitos@yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">I&#39;ve been running ubuntu for awhile and I&#39;ve compiled my own programs but I&#39;ve never made my own package (deb file). I tried it once before on Fedora (rpm) years ago and it seemed to complicated. Can someone point me in the right direction on how to build my own packages?<br>

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      <br></blockquote></div><div>Freegeek rolled their own distro from Debian years ago, before Ubuntu made it a useless pursuit.<br><br>In the old days before Backtrack, Knoppix STD was remastrered with specific drivers, etc (because it was distributed without network drivers as a way to keep script kiddie abuse down), which is similar:<br>

<br>Here&#39;s some good references:<br><br><a href="http://www.tuxradar.com/content/how-build-your-own-linux-distro" target="_blank">http://www.tuxradar.com/content/how-build-your-own-linux-distro</a>  <br><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7246" target="_blank">http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7246</a>  Knoppix<br>

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