How to build Xubuntu packages with Codeship.

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 Codeship?

Manually installing dependencies, setting up build servers and dealing with different CI providers on all your projects is not only time-consuming it also increases the probability of human error. Codeship automates this entire process. As soon as you push code to your git repository the tests start to run and a webhook is fired off to your project dashboard in your CI provider of choice. With just a few clicks in your Codeship dashboard you can hook up a new branch or merge request and Codeship will automatically run your test suite. And not only that each test gives you a detailed report so you know exactly what’s been tested and what isn’t.

Building Xubuntu package with Codeship via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Xubuntu package with Codeship, 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 Codeship.