This Monday I decided to upgrade my system to a newer version of Ubuntu Linux which has just arrived — Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy. In my past, I had hundreds of system upgrades and installations so that I clearly knew what to do.

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As all of you probably know, we are building the BlogBridge application – the next generation of feed aggregators. At the present moment we are distributing the application in two forms: as Java Web Start application and ZIP-packaged Java application available for download from SourceForge.net. Lately, we started to think how to create native installation/uninstallation experience for our users on different platforms. We decided to support native installations for Windows, Mac OS X, generic Tar.GZ archives and Debian packages.

In this tutorial I will share the basics of Debian package creation for Java applications.

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