Create .deb files with Windows PC tutorial

Debian on Windows

A couple of people have asked me this. So I thought I would write a little guide of how I create .deb files from my Windows PC files. (or from an extracted .ipk)
As I already have this setup and don't want to delete it for the sake of this guide. These instructions might need tweaking later.

Enable / Install WSL2

Windows 11
Already pre-installed.

Windows 10.
Start Menu, search "Turn Windows features on or off"
Make sure "Virtual Machine Platform" and "Windows Subsytem for Linux" are checked.

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Restart your PC if you have had to turn any of them on.

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Start menu, search "Windows PowerShell"
Right click and run as administrator

enter these commands

wsl --install

restart your PC

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Install debian GUI package from Microsoft store

Open Microsoft Store
Search for debian
Install

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Download a linux distrubution

Start menu, search "Windows PowerShell"

Right click and run as administrator

enter these commands

wsl --update
wsl --install -d Debian

After a few minutes
enter a username
enter a password

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You now have a linux operating system on windows.

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To view file explorer in debian app

explorer.exe .

other quick commands

ls - list files
cd [folder]
cd .. - parent directory
cd / root directory

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In your home folder. In my case home/kiddac

Create a new folder for your plugin. i.e xstreamity

Inside that home/kiddac/xstreamity folder create a DEBIAN folder
Your control file goes inside that DEBIAN folder

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Your root files also go inside this plugin folder. i.e usr, etc

The folders must be the same as your enigma2 box.

i.e

/usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/Extensions/XStreamity

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So if I was to now create a new .deb file.

I would copy my contol file into DEBIAN folder. Overriding the existing file.

I would delete any existing folders for usr, etc and then copy a fresh copy of the usr, etc folders into my plugin folder.

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Then back in your Debian console

make sure you are in the correct home folder

cd /

cd home
cd kiddac (for example)

# dpkg-deb -b <dir/DEBIAN> <new-package.deb>
dpkg-deb -b /home/kiddac/xstreamity enigma2-plugin-extensions-xtreamity_3.93_20230126_all.deb

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this will then produce the .deb file in my home folder.

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And the next time you use Debian app, all your previous commands will be saved. So you can just up cursor, to quickly load a previous command.
In which case, I just change the version number each time

Lululla Here you go pal. This is how I do it.



never noticed before. But how strange my random desktop pc name is pretty much an anagram of enigma2. EGI2MN9

And I just went through the motions of this again and ran into a little error.

Sometimes it does this and I don't know why.

I cannot delete any files in my home folder. i.e home/kiddac

If this happens to you. Just use another folder. i.e root/Debian/tmp

or this command might work to give ownership

sudo chown $USER:$USER ./xstreamity
xstreamity being the folder in your home folder you want to own.