How to build Lubuntu packages with TravisCI.

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 TravisCI?

Travis CI is a hosted, distributed Continuous Integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub. Travis CI is integrated with GitHub pull requests and supports all programming languages that can be built into docker images, making it very handy to setup.

Building Lubuntu package with TravisCI via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Lubuntu package with TravisCI, 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 TravisCI.