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.
dh_installwm – register a window manager Synopsisdh_installwm [debhelper options] [-n] [–priority=n] [wm …] Descriptiondh_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 be installed in…
dh_installudev – install udev rules files Synopsisdh_installudev [debhelper options] [-n] [–name=name] [–priority=priority] Descriptiondh_installudev is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing udev rules files. Filesdebian/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 usual debian/package.udev. –priority=priority Sets the priority…
dh_installtex – register Type 1 fonts, hyphenation patterns, or formats with TeX Synopsisdh_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] Descriptiondh_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 should depend on…
dh_installsystemd – install systemd unit files Synopsisdh_installsystemd [debhelper options] [–restart-after-upgrade] [–no-stop-on-upgrade] [–no-enable] [–name=name] [unit file …] Descriptiondh_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 necessary that the…
dh_installppp – install ppp ip-up and ip-down files Synopsisdh_installppp [debhelper options] [–name=name] Descriptiondh_installppp is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing ppp ip-up and ip-down scripts into package build directories. Filesdebian/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 for files named debian/package.name.ppp.ip-* and install…
dh_installpam – install pam support files Synopsisdh_installpam [debhelper options] [–name=name] Descriptiondh_installpam is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by PAM into package build directories. Filesdebian/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 the usual files and installing them…
dh_installmodules – register kernel modules Synopsisdh_installmodules [debhelper options] [-n] [–name=name] Descriptiondh_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 is installed. These…
dh_installmime – install mime files into package build directories Synopsisdh_installmime [debhelper options] Descriptiondh_installmime is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing mime files into package build directories. Filesdebian/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 Alsodebhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AuthorJoey Hess…
dh_installmenu – install Debian menu files into package build directories Synopsisdh_installmenu [debhelper options] [-n] Descriptiondh_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 commands are inserted…
dh_installmanpages – old-style man page installer (deprecated) Synopsisdh_installmanpages [debhelper options] [file …] Descriptiondh_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) instead. dh_installmanpages scans…
dh_installman – install man pages into package build directories Synopsisdh_installman [debhelper options] [manpage …] Descriptiondh_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 of its install…
dh_installlogrotate – install logrotate config files Synopsisdh_installlogrotate [debhelper options] [–name=name] Descriptiondh_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 installing them as the…
dh_installlogcheck – install logcheck rulefiles into etc/logcheck/ Synopsisdh_installlogcheck [debhelper options] Descriptiondh_installlogcheck is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing logcheck rule files. Filesdebian/package.logcheck.cracking debian/package.logcheck.violations debian/package.logcheck.violations.ignore debian/package.logcheck.ignore.workstation debian/package.logcheck.ignore.server debian/package.logcheck.ignore.paranoid Each of these files, if present, are installed into corresponding subdirectories of etc/logcheck/ in package build directories.Options–name=name Look for files named debian/package.name.logcheck.* and install them into the…
dh_installinit – install service init files into package build directories Synopsisdh_installinit [debhelper options] [–name=name] [-n] [-R] [-r] [-d] [— params] Descriptiondh_installinit is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing init scripts with associated defaults files. In compatibility levels up to 11, dh_installinit also handled upstart job files and systemd service files. It also automatically generates the…
dh_installinfo – install info files Synopsisdh_installinfo [debhelper options] [-A] [file …] Descriptiondh_installinfo is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing info files into usr/share/info in the package build directory. From debhelper compatibility level 11 on, dh_install will fall back to looking in debian/tmp for files, if it does not find them in the current directory (or…
dh_installifupdown – install if-up and if-down hooks Synopsisdh_installifupdown [debhelper options] [–name=name] Descriptiondh_installifupdown is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing if-up, if-down, if-pre-up, and if-post-down hook scripts into package build directories. Filesdebian/package.if-up debian/package.if-down debian/package.if-pre-up debian/package.if-post-down These files are installed into etc/network/if-*.d/package in the package build directory.Options–name=name Look for files named debian/package.name.if-* and install them as…
dh_installgsettings – install GSettings overrides and set dependencies Synopsisdh_installgsettings [debhelper options] [–priority=<number>] Descriptiondh_installgsettings is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing GSettings override files and generating appropriate dependencies on the GSettings backend. The dependency on the backend will be generated in ${misc:Depends}. Filesdebian/package.gsettings-override Installed into usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/10_package.gschema.override in the package build directory, with "package" replaced by…
dh_installexamples – install example files into package build directories Synopsisdh_installexamples [debhelper options] [-A] [-Xitem] [file …] Descriptiondh_installexamples is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing examples into usr/share/doc/package/examples in package build directories. From debhelper compatibility level 11 on, dh_install will fall back to looking in debian/tmp for files, if it does not find them in the…
dh_installemacsen – register an Emacs add on package Synopsisdh_installemacsen [debhelper options] [-n] [–priority=n] [–flavor=foo] Descriptiondh_installemacsen is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by the Debian emacsen-common package into package build directories. It also automatically generates the preinst postinst and prerm commands needed to register a package as an Emacs add on package….
dh_installdocs – install documentation into package build directories Synopsisdh_installdocs [debhelper options] [-A] [-Xitem] [file …] Descriptiondh_installdocs is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing documentation into usr/share/doc/package in package build directories. In compat 10 and earlier, dh_install(1) may be a better tool for handling the upstream documentation, when upstream’s own build system installs all the desired…