It’s available on Homebrew: brew install dpkg If you don’t have Homebrew installed, go to brew.sh. It’s a simple one-liner to install. Homebrew is less invasive, less complicated, and more popular than Macports or similar.
Although you’ve already got your own answer, I’ll point out a couple of things. You seem to be doing this in a very complicated manner. If you simply need to copy files into certain directories, write a debian/mypackagename.install with the following format: path/to/file/relative/to/source/root path/to/install/relative/to/system/root (do not prepend / before /usr, or /opt, or whatever your … Read more
The simplest way of installing SBT on ubuntu is the deb package provided by Typesafe. Run the following shell commands: wget http://apt.typesafe.com/repo-deb-build-0002.deb sudo dpkg -i repo-deb-build-0002.deb sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sbt And you’re done !