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 the following:

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 ...

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