How to publish Debian packages on Sonatype.

What are Debian packages?

Debian is a free operating system ( OS ) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an OS) along with thousands of software packages (also called 'packages') that are each distributed in a separate file. The packages contain the program code that does all the work, and are connected to each other in what is called a package dependency hierarchy . Each package depends on some smaller package or packages, which in turn depend on even smaller packages, and so on.

What is Sonatype?

Sonatype Nexus is the most prevalent open source repository management software platform in use today. Its popularity is driven by its powerful capabilities for managing all aspects of the full development lifecycle, that can scale to meet the most ambitious projects. It provides flexible platforms to manage agile development processes and single-server to enterprise software deployments.

Publish Debian packages on Sonatype with packagecloud

If you’re looking to publish Debian packages on Sonatype, you can use packagecloud to handle all of your package management. Packagecloud works with all kinds of packages, not only Debian packages. With packagecloud you can manage all of your packages from various OS’s, languages, and more. Always trust that your packages will be secure when you publish your Debian packages on Sonatype via packagecloud.