Hi everyone,

today I stumbled in this page (in portuguese) in the internet while looking for a way to make a deb package for GoogleEarth.

To resume, it explains how to make a deb package for GoogleEarth in Debian distro.

Well, I tried it to see if it worked in Ubuntu. Of course I didn't add the debian repository. Instead I've downloaded the deb package and installed it. The I typed "make-googleearth-package" (no sudo) and it made a deb package of GoogleEarth after it downloaded it automaticaly! No redistribution! After it's only a "sudo dpkg -i" and that's it.

How I did it for GoogleEarth:

Code:
wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/co..._0.0.5_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i googleearth-package_0.0.5_all.deb

make-googleearth-package

sudo dpkg -i googleearth_4.0.2735.0-1_i386.deb
I've searched a little further in http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and found another deb to make the latest flashplugin-nonfree on a deb file.

Here it is for flashplugin-nonfree:


Code:
 wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/co...1.0.2_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.31.0.2_i386.deb
Here is a more debian way to install those programs that still aren't in the repos (and may never be)!

I think that those packages should be made available in Ubuntu repos.

Worked on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft.