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I would like to package Nagios 4 on Ubuntu. Installation from source involves multiple make commands and a configure command.

wget -O nagioscore.tar.gz https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/archive/nagios-4.3.4.tar.gz
tar xzf nagioscore.tar.gz
cd /tmp/nagioscore-nagios-4.3.4/
./configure --with-httpd-conf=/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
make all
make install
make install-init
make install-commandmode
make install-config
make install-webconf

How do I make a deb or apt package out of this?

I tried following the Ubuntu instructions http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/packaging-new-software.html When I run the bzr dh-make package version package.tar.gz, I get the following error

bzr: ERROR: Either run the command from an existing branch of upstream, or move nagioscore-nagios-4.3.4 aside and a new branch will be created there.
David Foerster
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From https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo:

If you got this far, you've done the hardest part already. Now all you need to do is run the command 

make which does the actual building (compiling) of the program.

If it's a large program or if you've got a very slow computer, go and get a cup of coffee or something. If you have a multi-core processor you can also set the variable CONCURRENCY_LEVEL to the number of processors/cores you have to speed things up a little.

When it's done, install the program. You probably want to use sudo checkinstall which puts the program in the package manager for clean, easy removal later. This replaces the old sudo make install command.

karel
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