electron-deboa-maker

electron-deboa-maker is a maker for Electron Forge that enables it to create a .deb package for your Electron app on Windows, Linux and macOS. It uses deboa under the hood to build the .deb package.

Features

• Supports compression in .tar, .tar.gz or .tar.xz
• Support for icon and desktop specification file
• Symlink creation and granular control over chmod permissions at build time, even on Windows

Installation

# Yarn
yarn add --dev electron-deboa-maker

# npm
npm i -D electron-deboa-maker

Usage

Please refer to Electron Forge's docs for more details on how to write your configuration. You can also check out the example Electron app here.

package.json:

{
  "name": "my-awesome-app",
  "productName": "My Awesome App",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "My Electron application description",
  "main": "src/index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "makedeb": "electron-forge make --platform=linux"
  },
  "config": {
    "forge": {
      "packagerConfig": {
        "name": "my-awesome-app"
      },
      "makers": [
        {
          "name": "electron-deboa-maker",
          "config": {
            "deboaOptions": {
              "icon": "./build/icon.png",
              "beforeCreateDesktopEntry": "./build/beforeDesktopEntry.js",
              "controlFileOptions": {
                "maintainer": "Erik Moura",
                "homepage": "https://www.example.com",
                "maintainerScripts": {
                  "postrm": "./build/postrm"
                }
              },
              "tarballFormat": "tar.xz"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

To create your .deb file, run the makedeb script.

You can check all the available options on deboa's docs.