Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME dh_missing – check for missing files SYNOPSIS dh_missing [-Xitem] [–sourcedir=dir] [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_missing compares the list of installed files with the files in the source directory. If any of the files (and symlinks) in the source directory were not installed to somewhere, it will warn on stderr about that (–list-missing) or fail (–fail-missing). Please…
NAME dh_md5sums – generate DEBIAN/md5sums file SYNOPSIS dh_md5sums [debhelper options] [-x] [-Xitem] [–include-conffiles] DESCRIPTION dh_md5sums is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating a DEBIAN/md5sums file, which lists the md5sums of each file in the package. These files are used by dpkg –verify or the debsums(1) program. All files in DEBIAN/ are omitted from the…
NAME dh_makeshlibs – automatically create shlibs file and call dpkg-gensymbols SYNOPSIS dh_makeshlibs [debhelper options] [-mmajor] [-V[dependencies]] [-n] [-Xitem] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_makeshlibs is a debhelper program that automatically scans for shared libraries, and generates a shlibs file for the libraries it finds. It will also ensure that ldconfig is invoked during install and removal when it finds…
NAME dh_listpackages – list binary packages debhelper will act on SYNOPSIS dh_listpackages [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_listpackages is a debhelper program that outputs a list of all binary packages debhelper commands will act on. If you pass it some options, it will change the list to match the packages other debhelper commands would act on if passed…
NAME dh_lintian – install lintian override files into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_lintian [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_lintian is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing override files used by lintian into package build directories. FILES debian/package.lintian-overrides Installed into usr/share/lintian/overrides/package in the package build directory. This file is used to suppress erroneous lintian diagnostics. debian/source/lintian-overrides These…
NAME dh_link – create symlinks in package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_link [debhelper options] [-A] [-Xitem] [source destination …] DESCRIPTION dh_link is a debhelper program that creates symlinks in package build directories. dh_link accepts a list of pairs of source and destination files. The source files are the already existing files that will be symlinked from (called target by…
NAME dh_installxmlcatalogs – install and register XML catalog files SYNOPSIS dh_installxmlcatalogs [debhelper options] [-n] DESCRIPTION dh_installxmlcatalogs is a debhelper program that installs and registers XML catalog files. It complies with the Debian XML/SGML policy. The file debian/package.xmlcatalogs lists the local XML catalog files to be installed per package as well as the XML entities in…
NAME dh_installxfonts – register X fonts SYNOPSIS dh_installxfonts [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_installxfonts is a debhelper program that is responsible for registering X fonts, so their corresponding fonts.dir, fonts.alias, and fonts.scale be rebuilt properly at install time. Before calling this program, you should have installed any X fonts provided by your package into the appropriate location in…
NAME dh_installwm – register a window manager SYNOPSIS dh_installwm [debhelper options] [-n] [–priority=n] [wm …] DESCRIPTION dh_installwm is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating the postinst and prerm commands that register a window manager with update-alternatives(8). The window manager’s man page is also registered as a slave symlink (in v6 mode and up). It must…
NAME dh_installudev – install udev rules files SYNOPSIS dh_installudev [debhelper options] [-n] [–name=name] [–priority=priority] DESCRIPTION dh_installudev is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing udev rules files. FILES debian/package.udev Installed into lib/udev/rules.d/ in the package build directory. OPTIONS –name=name When this parameter is used, dh_installudev looks for and installs files named debian/package.name.udev instead of the…
NAME dh_installtex – register Type 1 fonts, hyphenation patterns, or formats with TeX SYNOPSIS dh_installtex [debhelper options] [-n] [–flavor=flavor[,flavor]] [map=MixedMap,file.map] [map=Map,file.map] [map=KanjiMap,file.map] [mapfile=file.cfg] [hyphen=lang,file[,lhm=n][,rhm=n][,synonym=syn,…]] [hyphenfile=file.cnf] [format=format,engine,hyphenfile,rest args] [formatfile=file.cnf] DESCRIPTION dh_installtex is a debhelper program that is responsible for updating the ls-R databases, registering map files, new formats, and new hyphenation patterns with TeX. Your package…
NAME dh_installsystemd – install systemd unit files SYNOPSIS dh_installsystemd [debhelper options] [–restart-after-upgrade] [–no-stop-on-upgrade] [–no-enable] [–name=name] [unit file …] DESCRIPTION dh_installsystemd is a debhelper program that is responsible for enabling, disabling, starting, stopping and restarting systemd unit files. In the simple case, it finds all unit files installed by a package (e.g. bacula-fd.service) and enables them. It is not…
NAME dh_installppp – install ppp ip-up and ip-down files SYNOPSIS dh_installppp [debhelper options] [–name=name] DESCRIPTION dh_installppp is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing ppp ip-up and ip-down scripts into package build directories. FILES debian/package.ppp.ip-up Installed into etc/ppp/ip-up.d/package in the package build directory. debian/package.ppp.ip-down Installed into etc/ppp/ip-down.d/package in the package build directory. OPTIONS –name=name Look…
NAME dh_installpam – install pam support files SYNOPSIS dh_installpam [debhelper options] [–name=name] DESCRIPTION dh_installpam is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by PAM into package build directories. FILES debian/package.pam Installed into etc/pam.d/package in the package build directory. OPTIONS –name=name Look for files named debian/package.name.pam and install them as etc/pam.d/name, instead of using…
NAME dh_installmodules – register kernel modules SYNOPSIS dh_installmodules [debhelper options] [-n] [–name=name] DESCRIPTION dh_installmodules is a debhelper program that is responsible for registering kernel modules. Kernel modules are searched for in the package build directory and if found, preinst, postinst and postrm commands are automatically generated to run depmod and register the modules when the package…
NAME dh_installmime – install mime files into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installmime [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_installmime is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing mime files into package build directories. FILES debian/package.mime Installed into usr/lib/mime/packages/package in the package build directory. debian/package.sharedmimeinfo Installed into /usr/share/mime/packages/package.xml in the package build directory. SEE ALSO debhelper(7) This program is…
NAME dh_installmenu – install Debian menu files into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installmenu [debhelper options] [-n] DESCRIPTION dh_installmenu is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by the Debian menu package into package build directories. It also automatically generates the postinst and postrm commands needed to interface with the Debian menu package. These…
NAME dh_installmanpages – old-style man page installer (deprecated) SYNOPSIS dh_installmanpages [debhelper options] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_installmanpages is a debhelper program that is responsible for automatically installing man pages into usr/share/man/ in package build directories. This is a DWIM-style program, with an interface unlike the rest of debhelper. It is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use dh_installman(1)…
NAME dh_installman – install man pages into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installman [debhelper options] [manpage …] DESCRIPTION dh_installman is a debhelper program that handles installing man pages into the correct locations in package build directories. In compat 10 and earlier, this program was primarily for when upstream’s build system does not properly install them as a part…
NAME dh_installlogrotate – install logrotate config files SYNOPSIS dh_installlogrotate [debhelper options] [–name=name] DESCRIPTION dh_installlogrotate is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing logrotate config files into etc/logrotate.d in package build directories. Files named debian/package.logrotate are installed. OPTIONS –name=name Look for files named debian/package.name.logrotate and install them as etc/logrotate.d/name, instead of using the usual files and…