This is just an example/playground for packaging a Rust app as a .deb package (using cargo-deb) which also contains a (systemd) service that automatically starts the app once the .deb package is installed.

Requires Rust 1.31+, and optionally dpkg, ldd and liblzma-dev. Compatible with Ubuntu.

Once you clone the repo do:

cargo build && cargo deb
sudo dpkg -i target/debian/hello-world_0.1.0_amd64.deb

It will install a hello binary under /usr/bin/ and also a hello.service under /lib/systemd/system/. Once installed the service will be enabled and started.

You can see the status using:

sudo systemctl status hello

systemctl is a wrapper around systemd services so it offers many goodies (stop/restart etc).

To see the logs you can use the journalctl:

sudo journalctl -u hello.service

In order to completely remove the binary and the systemd all you need to do is:

sudo dpkg --purge hello-world