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-vendor – queries information about distribution vendors Synopsisdpkg-vendor [option…] command Descriptiondpkg-vendor is a tool to query information about vendors listed in /etc/dpkg/origins. /etc/dpkg/origins/default contains information about the current vendor. Commands–is vendor Exits with 0 if the current vendor is vendor. Otherwise exits with 1. –derives-from vendor Exits with 0 if the current vendor distribution is…
dpkg-trigger – a package trigger utility Synopsisdpkg-trigger [option…] trigger-name dpkg-trigger [option…] command Descriptiondpkg-trigger is a tool to explicitly activate triggers and check for its support on the running dpkg. This can be used by maintainer scripts in complex and conditional situations where the file triggers, or the declarative activate triggers control file directive, are insufficiently…
dpkg-statoverride – override ownership and mode of files Synopsisdpkg-statoverride [option…] command Description“stat overrides” are a way to tell dpkg(1) to use a different owner or mode for a path when a package is installed (this applies to any filesystem object that dpkg handles, including directories, devices, etc.). This can be used to force programs that…
dpkg-split – Debian package archive split/join tool Synopsisdpkg-split [option…] command Descriptiondpkg-split splits Debian binary package files into smaller parts and reassembles them again, to support the storage of large package files on small media such as floppy disks. It can be operated manually using the –split, –join and –info options. It also has an automatic…
dpkg-source – Debian source package (.dsc) manipulation tool Synopsisdpkg-source [option…] command Descriptiondpkg-source packs and unpacks Debian source archives. None of these commands allow multiple options to be combined into one, and they do not allow the value for an option to be specified in a separate argument. Commands-x, –extract filename.dsc [output-directory] Extract a source package…
dpkg-shlibdeps – generate shared library substvar dependencies Synopsisdpkg-shlibdeps [option…] [-e] executable [option…] Descriptiondpkg-shlibdeps calculates shared library dependencies for executables named in its arguments. The dependencies are added to the substitution variables file debian/substvars as variable names shlibs:dependency-field where dependency-field is a dependency field name. Any other variables starting with shlibs: are removed from the file….
dpkg-scansources – create Sources index files Synopsisdpkg-scansources [option…] binary-dir [override-file [path-prefix]] > Sources Descriptiondpkg-scansources scans the given binary-dir for .dsc files. These are used to create a Debian source index, which is output to stdout. The override-file, if given, is used to set priorities in the resulting index records and to override the maintainer field…
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…