Package Construction Using fpm

Example package creation

Let’s say we want to create a Debian package for the npm module leftpad. We’d run the following commands:

$ sudo apt install npm
$ fpm -s npm -t deb leftpad

• With -s, we specify the source, here npm.

• With -t deb, we instruct fpm to create a Debian package as the target.

• Finally, leftpad is the name of the source package, which fpm downloads (through the npm executable) and packages into a Debian package. ...