You need to put in the control file the section, the architecture and installed size to be read from hildon app manager when building with dpkg -b. Section: user/desktop Priority: extra Maintainer: yourname <youremailaddress> Package: packagename XSBC-Maemo-Display-Name: Name to show in App Manager Architecture: armel Installed-Size: 101 Version: 0.0.1 Description: Short description. In your postinst file you have to type the chmods you need in order to run the script aswell.