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openwengo 2.0 is almost out, but there’s still no Debian/ubuntu package for it.

As I don’t want to install it manually on all my machines, I automated the operation to create a debian package.

First we need to write an install script that installs openwengo. I chose to install the wengophone application in /usr/local/lib, so you might want to change that script. You can download the full script with error handling from here.

Here’s a simple version:

cd /tmp
# note of course there's no space between wg and et, but wordpress doesn't let me enter the word...
# See http://forums.asmallorange.com/index.php?s=f9062ac4cefe11274870830330699d58&showtopic=3631&st=0&p=26154&#entry26154
wg et http://download.wengo.com/wengophone/rc/WengoPhone-2.0-rc1-linux-b in-x86.tar.bz2
echo "f67c2c95e5e02776348a966ba9f14dd5  WengoPhone-2.0-rc1-linux-bin-x86.tar.bz2" | md5sum -c -
rm -rf wengo
mkdir wengo
tar -joxf WengoPhone-2.0-rc1-linux-bin-x86.tar.bz2 -C wengo/
chmod -R uog+r /tmp/wengo/wengophone-ng-binary-latest/*
chmod -R u+w /tmp/wengo/wengophone-ng-binary-latest/*
chmod 755 /tmp/wengo/wengophone-ng-binary-latest/*.sh /tmp/wengo/wengophone-ng-binary-latest/qtwengophone
mv /tmp/wengo/wengophone-ng-binary-latest/ /usr/local/lib/wengophone
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
ln -s /usr/local/lib/wengophone/wengophone.sh /usr/local/bin/wengophone

Now all you have to do is create a debian package using checkinstall.

> sudo checkinstall -D ./install.sh

Answer the questions. My package information ends up like this:

jerome@dolcevita:~$ apt-cache show openwengo
Package: openwengo
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 32
Maintainer: Jerome Lacoste 
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.0-rc1-1
Description: OpenWengo is an multi-platform open source VoIP application that supports the SIP protocol.

The script will auto-download the archive from Wengo’s site, install it and create a .deb file for you to reuse.

update: this method won’t create a package that reuses the shared libraries available in your other repositories (such as gaim ones), so the resulting package will be big. This is a temporary solution until a real package is created.

Pretty cool move by Thoughtworks, bundling svn, trac and CruiseControl together into buildix, a Debian derived distro.

Now what is only missing for me here is a way to handle mailing lists and archive them. But that is easy to add to the distro once installed.

And of course a maven2 repository manager with appropriate permission management for deployment