github.com/ylsGit/go-ethereum@v1.6.5/build/ci-notes.md (about) 1 # Debian Packaging 2 3 Tagged releases and develop branch commits are available as installable Debian packages 4 for Ubuntu. Packages are built for the all Ubuntu versions which are supported by 5 Canonical: 6 7 - Trusty Tahr (14.04 LTS) 8 - Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS) 9 - Yakkety Yak (16.10) 10 - Zesty Zapus (17.04) 11 12 Packages of develop branch commits have suffix -unstable and cannot be installed alongside 13 the stable version. Switching between release streams requires user intervention. 14 15 The packages are built and served by launchpad.net. We generate a Debian source package 16 for each distribution and upload it. Their builder picks up the source package, builds it 17 and installs the new version into the PPA repository. Launchpad requires a valid signature 18 by a team member for source package uploads. The signing key is stored in an environment 19 variable which Travis CI makes available to certain builds. 20 21 We want to build go-ethereum with the most recent version of Go, irrespective of the Go 22 version that is available in the main Ubuntu repository. In order to make this possible, 23 our PPA depends on the ~gophers/ubuntu/archive PPA. Our source package build-depends on 24 golang-1.8, which is co-installable alongside the regular golang package. PPA dependencies 25 can be edited at https://launchpad.net/%7Eethereum/+archive/ubuntu/ethereum/+edit-dependencies 26 27 ## Building Packages Locally (for testing) 28 29 You need to run Ubuntu to do test packaging. 30 31 Add the gophers PPA and install Go 1.8 and Debian packaging tools: 32 33 $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gophers/ubuntu/archive 34 $ sudo apt-get update 35 $ sudo apt-get install build-essential golang-1.8 devscripts debhelper 36 37 Create the source packages: 38 39 $ go run build/ci.go debsrc -workdir dist 40 41 Then go into the source package directory for your running distribution and build the package: 42 43 $ cd dist/ethereum-unstable-1.6.0+xenial 44 $ dpkg-buildpackage 45 46 Built packages are placed in the dist/ directory. 47 48 $ cd .. 49 $ dpkg-deb -c geth-unstable_1.6.0+xenial_amd64.deb