In one of my projects, I need to install custom build of wine to several computers running ubuntu. Hence, I had to get the sources, apply the patch files and then compile the source. Doing this for 1 computer is okay, however repeating this to several computers is a huge waste of time. The solution is compiling once and then build a debian package (*.deb), so for the other computers we just install the debian package file. Fortunately, making a debian package is very-very easy. Here is what I did:
Personal notes of Bambang Pranoto of various computing topics especially programming