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 dicar – Archive Binary Dictionary SYNOPSYS dicar -t bindic1 dicar -x bindic1 [ bindic2 ] dicar -r bindic1 bindic2 dicar -d bindic1 bindic2 DESCRIPTION dicar archives binary dictionary bindic1. The hyphen of each option may be omitted. [ TIONS ] -t Displays the dictionaries contained in binary dictionary file bindic1. Each displayed name of…
NAME dialog – display dialog boxes from shell scripts SYNOPSIS dialog –clear dialog –create-rc file dialog –print-maxsize dialog common-options box-options DESCRIPTION Dialog is a program that will let you to present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. These types of dialog boxes are implemented (though not all…
NAME dia – a diagram drawing program SYNOPSIS dia [-c] [–credits] [-e OUTPUT] [–export=OUTPUT] [-L LAYER,LAYER,…] [–show-layers=LAYER,LAYER,…] [-h] [–help] [-n] [–nosplash] [-s WxH] [–size=WxH] [-t FORMAT] [–filter=FORMAT] [-v] [–version] [file …] DESCRIPTION Dia is used to create diagrams. Dia has a number of basic tools, like lines and boxes but can also dynamically load sheets. A sheet is a…
NAME dhcp_release – Release a DHCP lease on a the local dnsmasq DHCP server. SYNOPSIS dhcp_release <interface> <address> <MAC address> <client_id> DESCRIPTION A utility which forces the DHCP server running on this machine to release a DHCP lease. Send a DHCPRELEASE message via the specified interface to tell the local DHCP server to delete a…
NAME dhcp_lease_time – Query remaining time of a lease on a the local dnsmasq DHCP server. SYNOPSIS dhcp_lease_time <address> DESCRIPTION Send a DHCPINFORM message to a dnsmasq server running on the local host and print (to stdout) the time remaining in any lease for the given address. The time is given as string printed to…
NAME dh_usrlocal – migrate usr/local directories to maintainer scripts SYNOPSIS dh_usrlocal [debhelper options] [-n] DESCRIPTION dh_usrlocal is a debhelper program that can be used for building packages that will provide a subdirectory in /usr/local when installed. It finds subdirectories of usr/local in the package build directory, and removes them, replacing them with maintainer script snippets (unless…
NAME dh_update_autotools_config – Update autotools config files SYNOPSIS dh_update_autotools_config [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_update_autotools_config replaces all occurrences of config.sub and config.guess in the source tree by the up-to-date versions found in the autotools-dev package. The original files are backed up and restored by dh_clean. SEE ALSO debhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR Niels Thykier…
NAME dh_undocumented – undocumented.7 symlink program (deprecated no-op) SYNOPSIS Do not run! DESCRIPTION This program used to make symlinks to the undocumented.7 man page for man pages not present in a package. Debian policy now frowns on use of the undocumented.7 man page, and so this program does nothing, and should not be used. SEE…
NAME dh_ucf – register configuration files with ucf SYNOPSIS dh_ucf [debhelper options] [-A] [-n] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_ucf is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating the postinst and postrm commands that register files with ucf(1) and ucfr(1). FILES debian/package.ucf List pairs of source and destination files to register with ucf. Each pair should be put…
NAME dh_testroot – ensure that a package is built with necessary level of root permissions SYNOPSIS dh_testroot [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_testroot is used to determine if the package has access to at least the level of root access that it declared it needed via the Rules-Requires-Root (R³) field. The following is how dh_testroot behaves based on…
NAME dh_testdir – test directory before building Debian package SYNOPSIS dh_testdir [debhelper options] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_testdir tries to make sure that you are in the correct directory when building a Debian package. It makes sure that the file debian/control exists, as well as any other files you specify. If not, it exits with an error. OPTIONS…
NAME dh_systemd_start – start/stop/restart systemd unit files SYNOPSIS dh_systemd_start [debhelper options] [–restart-after-upgrade] [–no-stop-on-upgrade] [unit file …] DESCRIPTION dh_systemd_start is a debhelper program that is responsible for starting/stopping or restarting systemd unit files in case no corresponding sysv init script is available. As with dh_installinit, the unit file is stopped before upgrades and started afterwards (unless –restart-after-upgrade is specified,…
NAME dh_systemd_enable – enable/disable systemd unit files SYNOPSIS dh_systemd_enable [debhelper options] [–no-enable] [–name=name] [unit file …] DESCRIPTION dh_systemd_enable is a debhelper program that is responsible for enabling and disabling 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 machine actually…
NAME dh_suidregister – suid registration program (deprecated) SYNOPSIS Do not run! DESCRIPTION This program used to register suid and sgid files with suidregister(1), but with the introduction of dpkg-statoverride(8), registration of files in this way is unnecessary, and even harmful, so this program is deprecated and should not be used. CONVERTING TO STATOVERRIDE Converting a…
NAME dh_strip – strip executables, shared libraries, and some static libraries SYNOPSIS dh_strip [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [–dbg-package=package] [–keep-debug] DESCRIPTION dh_strip is a debhelper program that is responsible for stripping executables, shared libraries, and static libraries that are not used for debugging. This program examines your package build directories and works out what to strip on its…
NAME dh_shlibdeps – calculate shared library dependencies SYNOPSIS dh_shlibdeps [debhelper options] [-Lpackage] [-ldirectory] [-Xitem] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_shlibdeps is a debhelper program that is responsible for calculating shared library dependencies for packages. This program is merely a wrapper around dpkg-shlibdeps(1) that calls it once for each package listed in the control file, passing it a list of…
NAME dh_scrollkeeper – deprecated no-op SYNOPSIS dh_scrollkeeper [debhelper options] [-n] [directory] DESCRIPTION dh_scrollkeeper was a debhelper program that handled registering OMF files for ScrollKeeper. However, it no longer does anything, and is now deprecated. SEE ALSO debhelper This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR Ross Burton <ross [at] burtonini.com> Index
NAME dh_scour – run scour optimizer on shipped SVG files SYNOPSIS dh_scour [debhelper options] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_scour is a debhelper program that will run the scour SVG image scrubber on all shipped SVG files. OPTIONS — params Pass “params” to scour(1). By default, no extra arguments are passed. SEE ALSO debhelper AUTHOR Martin Pitt <martin.pitt…
NAME dh_python3 – calculates Python dependencies, adds maintainer scripts to byte compile files, etc. SYNOPSIS dh_python3 -p PACKAGE [-V [X.Y][-][A.B]] DIR [-X REGEXPR] DESCRIPTION QUICK GUIDE FOR MAINTAINERS • if necessary, describe supported Python 3 versions via X-Python3-Version field in debian/control, • build depend on dh-python • build-depend on python3 or python3-all or python3-all-dev, •…
NAME dh_python2 – calculates Python dependencies, adds maintainer scripts to byte compile files, etc. SYNOPSIS dh_python2 -p PACKAGE [-V [X.Y][-][A.B]] DIR_OR_FILE [-X REGEXPR] DESCRIPTION QUICK GUIDE FOR MAINTAINERS • if necessary, describe supported Python versions via X-Python-Version field in debian/control, • build-depend on python or python-all or python-all-dev (>= 2.6.6-3~), • build module/application using its…