How to build Xubuntu packages with CircleCI.

What are Xubuntu packages?

Xubuntu is a community developed distribution for desktops and laptops based on the lightweight Xfce desktop environment. Xubuntu is an elegant and easy to use operating system. At its core, it's solid and minimalist. In addition, Xubuntu is fully customizable with hundreds of themes to choose from, along with different modifications for the Openbox window manager.

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 Xubuntu package with CircleCI via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Xubuntu 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 Xubuntu packages. As well, you can integrate with all kinds of CI/CD tools, not only CircleCI.