Some resources that contain useful information about creating debian packages: http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2016-pragmatic-debian-packaging.html https://code.d3v.site/phame/post/view/1/making_a_debian_package_from_scratch/ Using cowbuilder/pbuilder - create a new env, ex: sudo DIST=stretch ARCH=i386 cowbuilder --create --distribution stretch --architecture i386