A simple shell script that builds a fake .deb of jockey-common

steam-debian-depends.sh

#!/bin/bash
#inspired by kochd's script <https://gist.github.com/kochd/5819972>
# installs equivs which is used to generate fake packages
sudo apt-get install equivs

# creates a file called 'tmp'
> tmp

# appends package info to tmp
echo "
Package: jockey-common
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 728
Maintainer: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Architecture: all
Source: jockey
Version: 0.9.7-0ubuntu7
Depends: bash,
Description: user interface and desktop integration for driver management
 Jockey provides a user interface for configuring third-party drivers,
 such as the Nvidia and ATI fglrx X.org and various Wireless LAN
 kernel modules.
 .
 This package contains the common data shared between the frontends.
Python-Version: 2.7

" >> tmp

# builds fake package
equivs-build tmp
# installs fake package
sudo dpkg -i jockey-common_0.9.7-0ubuntu7_all.deb

rm tmp jockey-common_0.9.7-0ubuntu7_all.deb

This script does not work. Multi-line description causes an error when it is processed by equivs-build. I changed to comment to be single-line and it helped.

it does work. click on "raw" link to copy text.