# Building custom filebeat debian **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [January 11, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-custom-filebeat-debian/71163 "2017-01-11T00:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![surajs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@surajs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/surajs)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-custom-filebeat-debian/71163/1 "2017-01-11T00:29:03Z")
So i've been following [How to create a new Beats output?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-new-beats-output/61074/3) to create a custom beats output. So now i have two repositories as discussed in the post : 1. filebeat 2. custom-output I now need to create a debian for the "custom" filebeat that i have. What is the right approach for creating that one? ---
**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-custom-filebeat-debian/71163/2 "2017-01-11T12:44:08Z")
> I now need to create a debian for the "custom" filebeat that i have. What is the right approach for creating that one? What you mean by `create a debian`? Just build your custom beat with `go build`. ---
**Author:** ![surajs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@surajs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/surajs)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-custom-filebeat-debian/71163/3 "2017-01-11T13:41:24Z")
@steffens, I meant i need to package it as a debian package. ---
**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-custom-filebeat-debian/71163/4 "2017-01-11T15:27:49Z")
The beats have a `make package` target ([See](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/libbeat/scripts/Makefile#L393) and [packer tool](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/dev-tools/packer)). It's using xgo for cross compiling and [fpm](https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) to build the actual deb/rpm packages. The filebeat [Makefile](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/filebeat/Makefile) includes the Makefile providing `packer` and sets some environment variables. If you have a very custom main.go, this might be some overkill though. If all you need is a debian package you can also check out [dh-make-golang](https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang). ---
**Author:** ![surajs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@surajs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/surajs)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-custom-filebeat-debian/71163/5 "2017-01-13T01:16:13Z")
Thanks @steffen for the pointers. I basically imported the filebeat Makefile to the filebeat repo and added the following to build the debian package I needed. ``` BEAT_DIR=com.abc.xyz/filebeat ES_BEATS=./vendor/github.com/elastic/beats GOPACKAGES=$(shell glide novendor) SNAPSHOT=no include $(ES_BEATS)/libbeat/scripts/Makefile ``` However, for some reason, i had to comment out the following in libbeat/before\_build.sh file > ``` > # Install gotpl. Clone and copy needed as go-yaml is behind a proxy which doesn't work > # with git 1.7 > #git clone https://github.com/tsg/gotpl.git /go/src/github.com/tsg/gotpl > #mkdir -p /go/src/gopkg.in/yaml.v2 > #cp -r /go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/gopkg.in/yaml.v2 /go/src/gopkg.in/ > #go install github.com/tsg/gotpl > > ``` and had to install `gotpl` manually to get it working. ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-custom-filebeat-debian/71163/6 "2017-01-13T13:10:48Z")
Be aware that you have to rename BEAT\_DIR to BEAT\_PATH as soon as this one is merged: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/3339](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/3339) I still need to investigate the gotpl issue. ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-custom-filebeat-debian/71163/7 "2017-01-16T14:18:29Z")
@surajs Here is a similar issue with gotpl: What OS are you on? [Make package: yaml.v2': No such file or directory](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-package-yaml-v2-no-such-file-or-directory/66357/27) Did you get the same error as in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![surajs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@surajs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/surajs)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-custom-filebeat-debian/71163/8 "2017-01-24T01:03:21Z")
@ruflin, Yes, had got similar error as the other thread. And the OS configuration was : ``` PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="8" VERSION="8 (jessie)" ID=debian ``` I see that you have PR merged to fix this. Will verify and reach out in case I find any issues. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-custom-filebeat-debian/71163/9 "2017-02-01T00:29:03Z")
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