fpm - packaging made simple

Note

The documentation here is a work-in-progress; it is by no means extensive. If you want to contribute new docs or report problems, you are invited to do so on the project issue tracker.

Welcome to the fpm documentation!

fpm is a tool which lets you easily create packages for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and more!

fpm isn’t a new packaging system, it’s a tool to help you make packages for existing systems with less effort. It does this by offering a command-line interface to allow you to create packages easily. Here are some examples using fpm:

  • fpm -s npm -t deb express – Make a Debian package for the nodejs express library
  • fpm -s cpan -t rpm Fennec – Make an rpm for the perl Fennec module
  • fpm -s dir -t pacman -n fancy ~/.zshrc – Put your ~/.zshrc into an Arch Linux pacman package named “fancy”
  • fpm -s python -t freebsd Django – Create a FreeBSD package containing the Python Django library
  • fpm -s rpm -t deb mysql.rpm – Convert an rpm to deb

This project has a few important principles which guide development:

  • Community: If a newbie has a bad time, it’s a bug.
  • Engineering: Make it work, make it right, then make it fast.
  • Capabilities: If it doesn’t do a thing today, we can make it do it tomorrow.

Install fpm and you’ll quickly begin making packages for whatever you need!

You can view the changelog here.

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