# Correct way to use CPack to distribute binaries
**URL:** https://discourse.kitware.com/t/correct-way-to-use-cpack-to-distribute-binaries/889
**Category:** Computational Model Builder (CMB)
**Created:** [August 25, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/correct-way-to-use-cpack-to-distribute-binaries/889 "2022-08-25T00:53:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Yang](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/Yang)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/correct-way-to-use-cpack-to-distribute-binaries/889/1 "2022-08-25T00:53:11Z")
Hi CMB community,
I am new to CPack and I would like to learn it.
I see that CMB superbuild has CPack rules implemented but I didn’t find any documentation of how to properly use it.
Here is what I found out. There is a folder called `cpack` in the build tree after cmb-superbuild has been built. Go to the subfolder where a CMakeLists.txt is.
```auto
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
CPack
```
Is this how CPack is supposed to be used?
Thanks,
Yang
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/correct-way-to-use-cpack-to-distribute-binaries/889/2 "2022-08-27T13:38:36Z")
There are tests with a `cpack-` prefix on their name. You can run them with `ctest -R cpack-`
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### Author:  [@melroy89](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/melroy89)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/correct-way-to-use-cpack-to-distribute-binaries/889/3 "2025-12-25T12:44:19Z")
Well, you can create a package like TGZ, deb or RPM, look so in one go:
```auto
cpack -C Release -G "TGZ;DEB;RPM"
```