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.
update-initramfs – generate an initramfs image Synopsis update-initramfs {-c|-d|-u} [-k version] [-v] [-b directory] update-initramfs -h Description The update-initramfs script manages your initramfs images on your local box. It keeps track of the existing initramfs archives in /boot. There are three modes of operation create, update or delete. You must at least specify one of…
update-info-dir – update or create index file from all installed info files in directory Synopsis update-info-dir [options] [directory] Description Update, or create, the index file dir of available documentation in /usr/share/info/ (the default) or in given DIRECTORY. The index file info is the directory is usually presented by info browsers on startup. Options -h,–help Display…
update-inetd – create, remove, enable or disable entry in /etc/inetd.conf Synopsis update-inetd [–file FILENAME] [–help] [–version] [–verbose] [–comment-chars CHARACTERS] [–debug] [–group GROUPNAME] –add ENTRY update-inetd [–file FILENAME] [–help] [–version] [–verbose] [–pattern PATTERN] [–multi] [–debug] –remove SERVICE update-inetd [–file FILENAME] [–help] [–version] [–verbose] [–comment-chars CHARACTERS] [–pattern PATTERN] [–multi] [–debug] –enable SERVICE update-inetd [–file FILENAME] [–help] [–version]…
update-icon-caches – Update wrapper script for the icon caches Synopsis update-icon-caches directory [ … ] Description update-icon-caches is a wrapper script for updating the icon caches in a list of directories. In each of the directories passed as arguments, the icon cache is updated if it is already present. It is not created if it…
update-grub, update-grub2 – stub for grub-mkconfig Synopsis update-grub Description update-grub is a stub for running grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg to generate a grub2 config file. See Also grub-mkconfig(8)
update-grub, update-grub2 – stub for grub-mkconfig Synopsis update-grub Description update-grub is a stub for running grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg to generate a grub2 config file. See Also grub-mkconfig(8)
update-grub-gfxpayload – update /boot/grub/gfxblacklist.txt Synopsis update\-grub\-gfxpayload Description update\-grub\-gfxpayload updates /boot/grub/gfxblacklist.txt from source files in /usr/share/grub-gfxpayload-lists/blacklist/ which disables GRUB’s gfxpayload=keep facility with certain graphics cards. It should normally only need to be called internally by packages. If you need to disable gfxpayload=keep locally (perhaps because your system starts up with a black or corrupt screen), then…
update-gconf-defaults – generate GConf defaults shipped in Debian packages Synopsis update-gconf-defaults [options] Description This manual page documents briefly the update-gconf-defaults command. update-gconf-defaults is responsible for generating defaults used by GConf from the files found in /usr/share/gconf/defaults. The syntax of files in this directory consists in lines containing the key name, some white space, and the…
update-fonts-scale – generate fonts.scale files Synopsis update-fonts-scale [OPTION] directory … Description update-fonts-scale assembles a fonts.scale file in an X font directory using one or more scale files found in a subdirectory of /etc/X11/fonts/. It is typically invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a package containing scalable fonts usable by the X Window…
update-fonts-dir – compile fonts.dir files Synopsis update-fonts-dir [OPTION] directory … Description update-fonts-dir creates a fonts.dir file in an X font directory by invoking mkfontdir(1x) with the appropriate arguments. It is typically invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a package containing fonts for the X Window System, but may be invoked at any…
update-fonts-alias – compile fonts.alias files Synopsis update-fonts-alias [OPTION] directory … Description update-fonts-alias assembles a fonts.alias file in an X font directory using one or more alias files found in a subdirectory of /etc/X11/fonts/. It is typically invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a package containing X Window System fonts that provide aliases…
update-updmap – generate updmap.cfg files for all the system trees Synopsis update-updmap [option … ] Description This manual page documents update-updmap, a program that was written for the Debian distribution. Overview update-updmap is used to generate updmap(1)Ns’s and updmap-sys8Ns’s configurations files /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-TEXLIVEDIST which is the link target of /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg and /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN which is the link…
update-language, update-fmtutil, update-fmtlang – update various TeX-related configuration files Synopsis update-language [options] update-fmtutil [options] Description This manual page explains briefly the usage of the three TeX configuration update programs update-language and update-fmtutil. The update-fontlang script should not be called directly, but only via the two described links. For a more in-depth description, please see the…
update-dictcommon-hunspell – rebuild hunspell database and emacsen stuff Synopsis update-dictcommon-hunspell Description WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing. This script, when called from hunspell dict package postinst or postrm will rebuild hunspell database as well as squirrelmail and emacsen stuff. See Also The dictionaries-common…
update-dictcommon-aspell – rebuild aspell database and emacsen stuff Synopsis update-dictcommon-aspell Description WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing. This script, when called from aspell dict package postinst or postrm will rebuild aspell database as well as squirrelmail, jed and emacsen stuff. See Also The…
update-default-wordlist – update default wordlist Synopsis update-default-wordlist [–skip-symlinks] [–triggered] Description WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing. This program is intended to be called from wordlist package postinst, from select-default-wordlist or from dictionaries-common postinst. When called under dpkg control with the –trigger option the…
update-default-ispell – update default ispell dictionary Synopsis update-default-ispell [–skip-symlinks] [–triggered] Description WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing. This program is intended to be called from ispell dictionary package postinst, from select-default-ispell or from dictionaries-common postinst. When called under dpkg control with the –trigger…
update-dictcommon-aspell – rebuild aspell database and emacsen stuff Synopsis update-dictcommon-aspell Description WARNING: Not to be used from the command line unless you know very well what you are doing. This script, when called from aspell dict package postinst or postrm will rebuild aspell database as well as squirrelmail, jed and emacsen stuff. See Also The…
update-crypto-policies – manage the policies available to the various cryptographic back-ends. Synopsis update-crypto-policies [COMMAND] Description update-crypto-policies(8) is used to set the policy applicable for the various cryptographic back-ends, such as SSL/TLS libraries. That will be the default policy used by these back-ends unless the application user configures them otherwise. The available policies are restricted to…
update-cracklib – Regenerate cracklib dictionary Synopsis update-cracklib Description update-cracklib builds a compressed and accumulated version of wordlists stored in the directories given in cracklib’s configuration file /etc/cracklib/cracklib.conf. Programs using cracklib2 need this database to be of any use. By default this script is called by cron every day. Result update-cracklib prints out two numbers: the…