linux-packaging.md

Building binary packages for Linux

Pre-requisites

Make sure you can build the node.js client from source code (i.e. you can successfully complete the Quickstart section of the README file).

Debian/Ubuntu (deb package format)

1. Make sure you have dpkg, jq and fakeroot installed (otherwise, install them with apt).
2. Run yarn.
3. Run yarn build.
4. Run PACKAGING=1 yarn --production.
5. Then run ./packaging/build-package.sh deb.
6. The deb package will be located in the dist/ directory.

Note: creating deb packages only has been tested extensively on Ubuntu and Debian.

Fedora/CentOS/RHEL (RPM package format)

1. Make sure you have rpm-build installed (otherwise, install it with yum or dnf).
2. Run yarn
3. Run yarn build.
4. Run PACKAGING=1 yarn --production.
5. Then run ./packaging/build-package.sh rpm.
6. The RPM package will be located in the dist/ directory.

Note: creating RPM packages only has been tested extensively on Fedora.