sudo apt-get install nano LATEST_URL=http://github.com/scopatz/nanorc.git DIR_NAME=nano-syntax-highlighting/ install_path=/usr/share/${DIR_NAME} mkdir -p $install_path mkdir /tmp/nanorc-1.0 cd /tmp/nanorc-1.0 cat > ./description-pak << EOF dot nanorc files that have improved definitions of syntax highlighting for various languages in the nano editor. EOF checkinstall -y --fstrans \ --pkgname=nanorc \ --pkgversion=1.0 \ --pkgrelease=1 \ --pkgarch=amd64 \ --pkggroup=admin \ --pkglicense=LICENSE \ --pkgsource=${LATEST_URL} \ --maintainer=cyteen@ring-zero.co.uk \ --requires=nano,unzip,wget \ -D \ git clone ${LATEST_URL} ${DIR_NAME} cp ${DIR_NAME}/*.nanorc ${install_path} && \ echo "include ${install_path}/*.nanorc" >> /etc/nanorc