How to build Lubuntu packages with CircleCI.

What are Lubuntu packages?

Lubuntu is a complete Linux operating system, like Ubuntu, but based on the lightweight LXDE desktop environment. It is designed to be lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient than other mainstream distributions. these target the performance of Lubuntu for PC and lower end machines. At the same time, Lubuntu remains a functional and light-weight desktop environment. It is a good operating system for those who want to have a small footprint on their computer and who use little hardware resources.

What is CircleCI?

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that helps developers build and ship their code faster, more easily, and with confidence. With CircleCI you can automate the testing, building, deploying, and monitoring of applications from a single console with a fully integrated experience. Circleci scales with your business needs. Simple, extensible DevOps software that is an order of magnitude faster than Gitlab-CI or Travis-CI. It offers more options for configuration, has low impacting resource requirements and makes collaborating on pipeline tasks an effortless experience.

Building Lubuntu package with CircleCI via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Lubuntu package with CircleCI, you can use packagecloud to handle all of your package management and integrations with your CI/CD tools. Packagecloud works with all kinds of packages, not only Lubuntu packages. As well, you can integrate with all kinds of CI/CD tools, not only CircleCI.