What follows is a basic example of how a source package for a python script might look. While most of the packaging tutorials are a bit complex, they can really help if you hit a problem. That said, I first learned the basics of Debian packaging by simply looking at Debian packages. apt-get source something similar and learn by example.
Here's your basic source package layout:
my-script/
-- myScript
-- debian/
-- changelog
-- copyright
-- compat
-- rules
-- control
-- install
Run dch --create in the directory to create a properly formatted debian/changelog entry.
debian/copyright should look like:
Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: myScript
Upstream-Contact: Name, <email@address>
Files: *
Copyright: 2011, Name, <email@address>
License: (GPL-2+ | LGPL-2 | GPL-3 | whatever)
Full text of licence.
.
Unless there is a it can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses
debian/compat can just be: 7
debian/rules:
#!/usr/bin/make -f
%:
dh $@ --with python2
Note that there must be "tab" before dh $@ --with python2, not spaces.
debian/control:
Source: my-script
Section: python
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Name, <email@address>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7),
python (>= 2.6.6-3~)
Standards-Version: 3.9.2
X-Python-Version: >= 2.6
Package: my-script
Architecture: all
Section: python
Depends: python-appindicator, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}
Description: short description
A long description goes here.
.
It can contain multiple paragraphs
debian/install:
myScript usr/bin/
This file indicates which file will be installed into which folder.
Now build it with debuild --no-tgz-check
This will create a functional deb package. Lintian is going to throw a few warnings regarding the lack of an orig.tar.gz, but unless you plan on creating a proper upstream project that makes tarball releases you'll probably just want to ignore that for now.
there's a script that downloads java packages from Oracle and builds a local deb repository so you can install JRE, JDK and java plugin.
https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6
cd ~/
wget https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6/raw/master/oab-java.sh -O oab-java.sh
chmod +x oab-java.sh
sudo ./oab-java.sh
For Java 7 run:
sudo ./oab-java.sh -7
The debs will be available in /var/local/oab/deb.
Best Answer
Try using a GUI software instead, like Deb-creator, here are some screenshots of the software:
Contents of output window
Deb-Creators user interface outlining key features