Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME dpkg-realpath – print the resolved pathname with DPKG_ROOT support SYNOPSIS dpkg-realpath [option…] pathname DESCRIPTION dpkg-realpath is a tool (since dpkg 1.20.1) to resolve a pathname, that takes the dpkg(1) root directory into account, either implicitly from the DPKG_ROOT environment variable or from the command-line –root or –instdir options, and returns an absolute pathname relative…
NAME dpkg-query – a tool to query the dpkg database SYNOPSIS dpkg-query [option…] command DESCRIPTION dpkg-query is a tool to show information about packages listed in the dpkg database. COMMANDS -l, –list [package-name-pattern…] List all known packages matching one or more patterns, regardless of their status, which includes any real or virtual package referenced in…
NAME dpkg-parsechangelog – parse Debian changelog files SYNOPSIS dpkg-parsechangelog [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-parsechangelog reads and parses the changelog of an unpacked Debian source tree and outputs the information in it to standard output in a machine-readable form. OPTIONS -l, –file changelog-file Specifies the changelog file to read information from. A ‘-‘ can be used to specify…
NAME dpkg-name – rename Debian packages to full package names SYNOPSIS dpkg-name [option…] [—] file… DESCRIPTION This manual page documents the dpkg-name program which provides an easy way to rename Debian packages into their full package names. A full package name consists of package_version_architecture.package-type as specified in the control file of the package. The version…
NAME dpkg-mergechangelogs – 3-way merge of debian/changelog files SYNOPSIS dpkg-mergechangelogs [option…] old new-a new-b [out] DESCRIPTION This program will use the 3 provided versions of the Debian changelog to generate a merged changelog file. The resulting changelog is stored in the file out or output to the standard output if that parameter is not given….
NAME dpkg-maintscript-helper – works around known dpkg limitations in maintainer scripts SYNOPSIS dpkg-maintscript-helper command [parameter…] — maint-script-parameter… COMMANDS AND PARAMETERS supports command rm_conffile conffile [prior-version [package]] mv_conffile old-conffile new-conffile [prior-version [package]] symlink_to_dir pathname old-target [prior-version [package]] dir_to_symlink pathname new-target [prior-version [package]] DESCRIPTION This program is designed to be run within maintainer scripts to achieve some…
NAME dpkg-gensymbols – generate symbols files (shared library dependency information) SYNOPSIS dpkg-gensymbols [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-gensymbols scans a temporary build tree (debian/tmp by default) looking for libraries and generates a symbols file describing them. This file, if non-empty, is then installed in the DEBIAN subdirectory of the build tree so that it ends up included in…
NAME dpkg-gencontrol – generate Debian control files SYNOPSIS dpkg-gencontrol [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-gencontrol reads information from an unpacked Debian source tree and generates a binary package control file (which defaults to debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control); during this process it will simplify the relation fields. Thus Pre-Depends, Depends, Recommends and Suggests are simplified in this order by removing dependencies which…
NAME dpkg-genchanges – generate Debian .changes files SYNOPSIS dpkg-genchanges [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-genchanges reads information from an unpacked and built Debian source tree and from the files it has generated and generates a Debian upload control file (.changes file). OPTIONS –build=type Specifies the build type from a comma-separated list of components (since dpkg 1.18.5). The allowed…
NAME dpkg-genbuildinfo – generate Debian .buildinfo files SYNOPSIS dpkg-genbuildinfo [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-genbuildinfo reads information from an unpacked and built Debian source tree and from the files it has generated and generates a Debian control file describing the build environment and the build artifacts (.buildinfo file). This command was introduced in dpkg 1.18.11. OPTIONS –build=type Specifies…
NAME dpkg-divert – override a package’s version of a file SYNOPSIS dpkg-divert [option…] command DESCRIPTION dpkg-divert is the utility used to set up and update the list of diversions. File diversions are a way of forcing dpkg(1) not to install a file into its location, but to a diverted location. Diversions can be used through…
NAME dpkg-distaddfile – add entries to debian/files SYNOPSIS dpkg-distaddfile [option…] filename section priority DESCRIPTION dpkg-distaddfile adds an entry for a named file to debian/files. It takes three non-option arguments, the filename and the section and priority for the .changes file. The filename should be specified relative to the directory where dpkg-genchanges will expect to find…
NAME dpkg-deb – Debian package archive (.deb) manipulation tool SYNOPSIS dpkg-deb [option…] command DESCRIPTION dpkg-deb packs, unpacks and provides information about Debian archives. Use dpkg to install and remove packages from your system. You can also invoke dpkg-deb by calling dpkg with whatever options you want to pass to dpkg-deb. dpkg will spot that you…
NAME dpkg-checkbuilddeps – check build dependencies and conflicts SYNOPSIS dpkg-checkbuilddeps [option…] [control-file] DESCRIPTION This program checks the installed packages in the system against the build dependencies and build conflicts listed in the control file. If any are not met, it displays them and exits with a nonzero return code. By default, debian/control is read, but…
NAME dpkg-buildpackage – build binary or source packages from sources SYNOPSIS dpkg-buildpackage [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-buildpackage is a program that automates the process of building a Debian package. It consists of the following steps: 1. It prepares the build environment by setting various environment variables (see ENVIRONMENT), runs the init hook, and calls dpkg-source –before-build (unless…
NAME dpkg-buildflags – returns build flags to use during package build SYNOPSIS dpkg-buildflags [option…] [command] DESCRIPTION dpkg-buildflags is a tool to retrieve compilation flags to use during build of Debian packages. The default flags are defined by the vendor but they can be extended/overridden in several ways: 1. system-wide with /etc/dpkg/buildflags.conf; 2. for the current…
NAME dpkg-architecture – set and determine the architecture for package building SYNOPSIS dpkg-architecture [option…] [command] DESCRIPTION dpkg-architecture provides a facility to determine and set the build and host architecture for package building. The build architecture is always determined by either the DEB_BUILD_ARCH variable if set (and –force not being specified) or by an external call…
NAME dpbindic – Convert a binary-form dictionary into a text-form dictionary SYNOPSYS dpbindic [ -xiu [ frequency ] ] binary-file [ text-file ] DESCRIPTION dpbindic outputs the file information of the binary-form dictionary file specified in binary-file. At this time, the word information of the dictionary can be output in text form to the standard…
NAME doxywizard – a tool to configure and run doxygen on your source files SYNOPSIS doxywizard DESCRIPTION Doxywizard is an interactive frontend to the doxygen tool to configure and run doxygen on your source files. You can optionally pass the name of a configuration file as the first argument to load it at startup. SEE…
NAME doxytag – generates a tag file and/or a search index for a set of HTML files SYNOPSIS doxytag [-t tag_file] [-s index_file] [ html_file [html_file…] ] DESCRIPTION Generates a tag file and/or a search index for a set of HTML files. Use doxysearch as a CGI program to search the tag file generated by…