The answer is to not do it. Provide the source and help distro maintainers to package it for you. You can help by being responsive to maintainers' questions, making sure the source is clean (no binary blobs, weird licenses, strange build systems, generally builds like similar packages), and integrating patches from maintainers upstream.

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_sinelaw_ 6 hours ago | parent [-]

If I don't make my program easy to install, many people won't even try it.

Being responsive to maintainers doesn't help if maintainers never reach out or even actively refuse to package your software.

	▲	rwmj 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In the early stages you can help by making your source code easy to build. No weird build system, make dependencies optional as much as possible, document how to build, reduce the number of steps required and make them as similar as possible to comparable software. Linux users will put up with this. That also helps distro packagers so it's a win-win.