Making an up to date ParaView package for ubuntu

Introduction

This page is for building a package for ParaView on Ubuntu trusty.

Initial setup (do only once)

• Ubuntu base url for initial setup: http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/getting-set-up.html
  • Install basic dependencies: sudo apt-get install packaging-dev
  • Normally, ubuntu handles package building with bzr, but getting the branch for the paraview package on trusty seems to be broken: bzr checkout lp:ubuntu/trusty/paraview paraview
    • Other example of broken branch: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bzr/+bug/539773
  • export PBUILDFOLDER=/data/<login>/pbuilder : Allow to specify the directory where pbuilder will work. It might be important in the case, where the $HOME directory is mounted on NFS, because some commands use root and root might not be able to access a directory of a user located on NFS (TODO: Check this assumption)
  • Build the basic chroot for trusty: pbuilder-dist trusty create
  • Identify yourself with bzr: bzr whoami "First_Name Last_Name <[email protected]>"
  • Identify on launchpad: bzr launchpad-login <login>
  • Configure shell for packaging tools (.bashrc, .zshrc, ...):
    • export DEBFULLNAME="First_Name Last_Name"
    • export DEBEMAIL="[email protected]"