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    Creating a .deb Package

This creates a package which runs an install.sh which copies a file somewhere
the below is entirely incorrect.
Hopefully I'll get around to fixing it
tip: this would install to the root dir & the relative path to ./install.sh would be wrong
go to project directory
cd /path/to/project

create the file
touch file

create the executable install.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo $(date) >> /tmp/test-install.log
cp file /tmp/

you can test it now
create a debian/DEBIAN/ directory
mkdir -p debian/DEBIAN
cd debian/DEBIAN

create a control file:
Package: test-install
Version: 1.1-1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Dean Rather <deanrather@gmail.com>
Description: Test Install Package
 This package tests running an install.sh script

create an exexutable postinst file
#!/bin/bash
./install.sh

build it!
cd ../../
dpkg-deb --build debian

install it!
sudo dpkg -i debian.deb

go check your /tmp/ dir