Install Basic Packages and Configure

The Ubuntu development community has created a convenient package that installs everything you need to get started. Install packaging-dev from the Ubuntu software repositories, which includes

Image gnupg, the GNU Privacy Guard, which includes the cryptographic tools you need to sign your packages when you upload them to Launchpad

Image pbuilder, which creates reproducible builds of a package in a clean, isolated environment

bzr-builddeb, which includes bzr; together these serve as your version control and package management ...

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