How to create professional looking installers

**john_god** · 21st January 2010, 02:17

Originally Posted by axeljaeger

On linux, you usually not have installers but packages for the package manager of the linux distribution.

Do you know a easy way to do packages for linux ? I did some googling and it seems difficult, lots of scripts to write, lots os distros, dependencies, compatibility issues, ....

**axeljaeger** · 21st January 2010, 10:07

It is not so straight forward, yes. I only did debian packages so far and there is a utility called "dh_make" that helps a bit creating the skeleton for debian-files. For RPM, there should be similar tools.