I currently use this self-packaged debian package: https://github.com/steinarb/karaf-deb-packaging
This debian package isn't built according to debian java standards so it isn't immediately useful for a "real" karaf .deb package, but there may be stuff in the installation scripts that could be borrowed. I forked my github project from this project https://github.com/DemisR/karaf-deb-packaging and did the following: 1. Switched from Oracle Java SDK to openjdk 2. Switched from using the proprietary karaf-wrapper to using the included init scrips (and later systemd) 3. Tried using /var/lib/karaf 4. Updated the karaf version several times This document describe (in Norwegian, unfortunately), how to build the .deb package on a debian system and then start karaf (steps 1, 2 and 3), and then ssh into karaf (step 5), add an extra maven repository (step 6) and use maven to provision and start a web application (step 7): https://github.com/steinarb/ukelonn#oppsett-av-webappen-på-en-server-med-debian-gnulinux
