The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
dpkg-scanpackages – create Packages index files Synopsisdpkg-scanpackages [option…] binary-path [override-file [path-prefix]] > Packages Descriptiondpkg-scanpackages sorts through a tree of Debian binary packages and creates a Packages file, used by apt(8), dselect(1), etc, to tell the user what packages are available for installation. These Packages files are the same as those found on Debian archive sites…
dpkg-repack – put an unpacked .deb file back together Synopsisdpkg-repack [–root=dir] [–arch=architecture] [–generate] packagename [packagename …] Descriptiondpkg-repack creates a .deb file out of a Debian package that has already been installed on your system. If any changes have been made to the package while it was unpacked (ie, conffiles files in /etc modified), the new…
dpkg-realpath – print the resolved pathname with DPKG_ROOT support Synopsisdpkg-realpath [option…] pathname Descriptiondpkg-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 to the root…
dpkg-query – a tool to query the dpkg database Synopsisdpkg-query [option…] command Descriptiondpkg-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 any dependency relationship field…
dpkg-parsechangelog – parse Debian changelog files Synopsisdpkg-parsechangelog [option…] Descriptiondpkg-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 reading from standard input….
dpkg-name – rename Debian packages to full package names Synopsisdpkg-name [option…] [—] file… DescriptionThis 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 part of the…
dpkg-mergechangelogs – 3-way merge of debian/changelog files Synopsisdpkg-mergechangelogs [option…] old new-a new-b [out] DescriptionThis 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. Each entry is…
dpkg-maintscript-helper – works around known dpkg limitations in maintainer scripts Synopsisdpkg-maintscript-helper command [parameter…] — maint-script-parameter… Commands And Parameterssupports 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]] DescriptionThis program is designed to be run within maintainer scripts to achieve some tasks that dpkg can’t…
dpkg-gensymbols – generate symbols files (shared library dependency information) Synopsisdpkg-gensymbols [option…] Descriptiondpkg-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 the control information…
dpkg-gencontrol – generate Debian control files Synopsisdpkg-gencontrol [option…] Descriptiondpkg-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 are known to…
dpkg-genchanges – generate Debian .changes files Synopsisdpkg-genchanges [option…] Descriptiondpkg-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 values are: source Upload…
dpkg-genbuildinfo – generate Debian .buildinfo files Synopsisdpkg-genbuildinfo [option…] Descriptiondpkg-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 the build type from…
dpkg-divert – override a package’s version of a file Synopsisdpkg-divert [option…] command Descriptiondpkg-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 the Debian package…
dpkg-distaddfile – add entries to debian/files Synopsisdpkg-distaddfile [option…] filename section priority Descriptiondpkg-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 the files, usually…
dpkg-deb – Debian package archive (.deb) manipulation tool Synopsisdpkg-deb [option…] command Descriptiondpkg-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 wanted dpkg-deb and…
dpkg-checkbuilddeps – check build dependencies and conflicts Synopsisdpkg-checkbuilddeps [option…] [control-file] DescriptionThis 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 an alternate control…
dpkg-buildpackage – build binary or source packages from sources Synopsisdpkg-buildpackage [option…] Descriptiondpkg-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 -T or –target…
dpkg-buildflags – returns build flags to use during package build Synopsisdpkg-buildflags [option…] [command] Descriptiondpkg-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 user with $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dpkg/buildflags.conf…
dpkg-architecture – set and determine the architecture for package building Synopsisdpkg-architecture [option…] [command] Descriptiondpkg-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 to dpkg(1), and…
dpbindic – Convert a binary-form dictionary into a text-form dictionary Synopsysdpbindic [ -xiu [ frequency ] ] binary-file [ text-file ] Descriptiondpbindic 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 output. To do…