# Repackage O3DE v23.05.1 for Debian Bookworm

This is out of date, but I'm keeping it because it was a useful learning experience.

Based on:
=> https://alexandra-zaharia.github.io/posts/how-to-manually-modify-a-deb-package/ Alexandra Zaharia's post on "How to modify a .deb package".

Having downloaded:
=> https://o3debinaries.org/main/Latest/Linux/o3de_2305_1.deb O3DE for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Perform the following operations:
```
ar x o3de_2305_1.deb
mkdir control
tar -xzf control.tar.gz -C ./control
cd control
sed -i 's/libffi7/libffi8/' control
sed -i 's/clang-12/clang-14/' control
tar -cfz control.tar.gz *
mv control.tar.gz ..
cd ..
ar r o3de_2305_01_deb12.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz
```

The resulting deb file can now be installed, but we need to do some additional linking afterwards:
```
dpkg -i o3de_2305_01_deb12.deb
cd /opt/O3DE/23.05.1/bin/Linux/profile/Default
ln -s /opt/O3DE/23.05.1/python/runtime/python-3.10.5-rev2-linux/python/lib/libssl.so.1.1
ln -s /opt/O3DE/23.05.1/python/runtime/python-3.10.5-rev2-linux/python/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1
```

To create a local gnome menu icon we create a file '~/.local/share/applications/o3de.desktop' with the following content:
```
[Desktop Entry]
Name=O3DE Editor
Comment=Launch O3DE 2305.1 Editor
Exec=/opt/O3DE/23.05.1/bin/Linux/profile/Default/o3de
Icon=/opt/O3DE/23.05.1/Templates/DefaultProject/Template/Resouces/GameSDK.ico
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
```