Tooloop Packages

This repository contains presentations and addons, that come bundled with Tooloop OS. It’s also a great place to get information on how to build your own package.

Creating a package

Tooloop Packages are ZIP files, containing a Debian package and additional images, displayed in the app center:

package.zip
│
├─ <package-name>_v.v.v_aaa.deb (mandatory)
│
└─ media/
   ├─ <preview_image>.jpg (mandatory)
   ├─ <optional-image>.png
   ├─ <optional-image>.jpg
   └─ ...

Creating a Debian package

Create a folder structure with your stuff:

Your-App
│
├─ media/ (your image files)
│  ├─ some-image.jpg
│  └─ ...
│
package/ (the Debian package)
├─ DEBIAN/
│  ├─ control (mandatory)
│  ├─ postinst (optional)
│  ├─ postrm (optional)
│  └─ ...
│
└─ assets/
   ├─ presentation/
   │  ├─ LICENSE.md
   │  ├─ README.md
   │  ├─ start-presentation.sh (mandatory)
   │  ├─ stop-presentation.sh (mandatory)
   │  └─ ...
   │
   └─ data/
      └─ ...

The DEBIAN folder contains the package information and some control files. All other folders are simply copied to disk for you.

The DEBIAN/control file

This file contains all the information about your package. It’s used to display information in the app center.

https://linux.die.net/man/5/deb-control

Package: tooloop-processing-example
# Use semantic versioning https://semver.org/
Version: 0.9.0
Maintainer: vollstock <daniel@vollstock.de>
Homepage: https://www.vollstock.de
Bugs: https://github.com/vollstock/Tooloop-Examples
# One of "tooloop/presentation", "tooloop/addon"
Section: tooloop/presentation
# One of "amd64", "armvl7", "all"
Architecture: amd64
Depends: tooloop-processing tooloop-processing (= 3.4.0)
# App name shown in the app center.
Name: Processing Example
# First line is the short description shown in the app center.
# All following lines are used as detailed description.
Description: A simple example, how to make a processing app
 Longer description…
# The thumbnail shown in the app center
Thumbnail: thumbnail.jpg
# The media files, shown in the detail view of the package
# can be JPGs and PNGs
Media: image1.jpg,
       image2.png

Scripts

You can add scripts in DEBIAN to further customize installation:

script	when
preinst	before installation
postinst	after installation
prerm	before removal
postrm	after removal

The scripts can be used to e. g. reload the settings server:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
systemctl restart tooloop-settings-server
exit 0

Building the Debian package

dpkg --build packagefolder packagename_version_architecture.deb

e.g.

dpkg --build kiosk-browser tooloop-processing-example_0.9.0_amd64.deb

Setting up the local .deb repository

https://askubuntu.com/questions/170348/how-to-create-a-local-apt-repository#176546

Create a packages directory and a dirctory where installed addons will live in:

mkdir /assets/packages /assets/addons
chown -R tooloop:tooloop /assets

Add .keep files so apt will not remove folders when purging packages:

touch /assets/addons/.keep
touch /assets/presentation/.keep
touch opt/tooloop/settings─server/installed_app/.keep

Create a script that will scan packages and create a RELEASE file apt-get update can read

/opt/tooloop/scripts/update-tooloop-packages

#! /bin/bash

cd /assets/packages

# Generate the Packages file
dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages
gzip --keep --force -9 Packages

# Generate the Release file
cat conf/distributions > Release
# The Date: field has the same format as the Debian package changelog entries,
# that is, RFC 2822 with time zone +0000
echo -e "Date: `LANG=C date -Ru`" >> Release
# Release must contain MD5 sums of all repository files (in a simple repo just the Packages and Packages.gz files)
echo -e 'MD5Sum:' >> Release
printf ' '$(md5sum Packages.gz | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1)' %16d Packages.gz' $(wc --bytes Packages.gz | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1) >> Release
printf '\n '$(md5sum Packages | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1)' %16d Packages' $(wc --bytes Packages | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1) >> Release
# Release must contain SHA256 sums of all repository files (in a simple repo just the Packages and Packages.gz files)
echo -e '\nSHA256:' >> Release
printf ' '$(sha256sum Packages.gz | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1)' %16d Packages.gz' $(wc --bytes Packages.gz | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1) >> Release
printf '\n '$(sha256sum Packages | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1)' %16d Packages' $(wc --bytes Packages | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1) >> Release

# Get apt to see the changes
sudo apt-get update

Useful commands

Install package

sudo apt install --allow-unauthenticated <PACKAGE>

Remove package

sudo apt purge <PACKAGE> && sudo apt autoremove

List installed

apt list --installed tooloop*

List available

apt list tooloop*

Search packages in section tooloop

aptitude -F'|%p|%d|' search '?section(tooloop/addon)'

https://askubuntu.com/a/473511/873460

Links

DEB packaging

http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/packaging-new-software.html https://blog.serverdensity.com/how-to-create-a-debian-deb-package/ https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html