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.



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

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or


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

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




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.

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-xstreamity_3.93_20230126_all.deb



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.