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.
NAME dpkg-vendor – queries information about distribution vendors SYNOPSIS dpkg-vendor [option…] command DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-trigger – a package trigger utility SYNOPSIS dpkg-trigger [option…] trigger-name dpkg-trigger [option…] command DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-statoverride – override ownership and mode of files SYNOPSIS dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-split – Debian package archive split/join tool SYNOPSIS dpkg-split [option…] command DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-source – Debian source package (.dsc) manipulation tool SYNOPSIS dpkg-source [option…] command DESCRIPTION dpkg-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]…
NAME dpkg-shlibdeps – generate shared library substvar dependencies SYNOPSIS dpkg-shlibdeps [option…] [-e] executable [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-scansources – create Sources index files SYNOPSIS dpkg-scansources [option…] binary-dir [override-file [path-prefix]] > Sources DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-scanpackages – create Packages index files SYNOPSIS dpkg-scanpackages [option…] binary-path [override-file [path-prefix]] > Packages DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-repack – put an unpacked .deb file back together SYNOPSIS dpkg-repack [–root=dir] [–arch=architecture] [–generate] packagename [packagename …] DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-realpath – print the resolved pathname with DPKG_ROOT support SYNOPSIS dpkg-realpath [option…] pathname DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-query – a tool to query the dpkg database SYNOPSIS dpkg-query [option…] command DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-parsechangelog – parse Debian changelog files SYNOPSIS dpkg-parsechangelog [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-name – rename Debian packages to full package names SYNOPSIS dpkg-name [option…] [—] file… DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME dpkg-mergechangelogs – 3-way merge of debian/changelog files SYNOPSIS dpkg-mergechangelogs [option…] old new-a new-b [out] DESCRIPTION This 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….
NAME dpkg-maintscript-helper – works around known dpkg limitations in maintainer scripts SYNOPSIS dpkg-maintscript-helper command [parameter…] — maint-script-parameter… COMMANDS AND PARAMETERS supports 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]] DESCRIPTION This program is designed to be run within maintainer scripts to achieve some…
NAME dpkg-gensymbols – generate symbols files (shared library dependency information) SYNOPSIS dpkg-gensymbols [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-gencontrol – generate Debian control files SYNOPSIS dpkg-gencontrol [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-genchanges – generate Debian .changes files SYNOPSIS dpkg-genchanges [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-genbuildinfo – generate Debian .buildinfo files SYNOPSIS dpkg-genbuildinfo [option…] DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…
NAME dpkg-divert – override a package’s version of a file SYNOPSIS dpkg-divert [option…] command DESCRIPTION dpkg-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…