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NAME dh_installsystemd – install systemd unit files SYNOPSIS dh_installsystemd [debhelper options] [–restart-after-upgrade] [–no-stop-on-upgrade] [–no-enable] [–name=name] [unit file …] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_installppp – install ppp ip-up and ip-down files SYNOPSIS dh_installppp [debhelper options] [–name=name] DESCRIPTION dh_installppp is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing ppp ip-up and ip-down scripts into package build directories. FILES debian/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…
NAME dh_installpam – install pam support files SYNOPSIS dh_installpam [debhelper options] [–name=name] DESCRIPTION dh_installpam is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by PAM into package build directories. FILES debian/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…
NAME dh_installmodules – register kernel modules SYNOPSIS dh_installmodules [debhelper options] [-n] [–name=name] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_installmime – install mime files into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installmime [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_installmime is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing mime files into package build directories. FILES debian/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 ALSO debhelper(7) This program is…
NAME dh_installmenu – install Debian menu files into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installmenu [debhelper options] [-n] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_installmanpages – old-style man page installer (deprecated) SYNOPSIS dh_installmanpages [debhelper options] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_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)…
NAME dh_installman – install man pages into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installman [debhelper options] [manpage …] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_installlogrotate – install logrotate config files SYNOPSIS dh_installlogrotate [debhelper options] [–name=name] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_installlogcheck – install logcheck rulefiles into etc/logcheck/ SYNOPSIS dh_installlogcheck [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_installlogcheck is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing logcheck rule files. FILES debian/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…
NAME dh_installinit – install service init files into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installinit [debhelper options] [–name=name] [-n] [-R] [-r] [-d] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_installinfo – install info files SYNOPSIS dh_installinfo [debhelper options] [-A] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_installifupdown – install if-up and if-down hooks SYNOPSIS dh_installifupdown [debhelper options] [–name=name] DESCRIPTION dh_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. FILES debian/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…
NAME dh_installgsettings – install GSettings overrides and set dependencies SYNOPSIS dh_installgsettings [debhelper options] [–priority=<number>] DESCRIPTION dh_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}. FILES debian/package.gsettings-override Installed into usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/10_package.gschema.override in the package build directory,…
NAME dh_installexamples – install example files into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installexamples [debhelper options] [-A] [-Xitem] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_installemacsen – register an Emacs add on package SYNOPSIS dh_installemacsen [debhelper options] [-n] [–priority=n] [–flavor=foo] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_installdocs – install documentation into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installdocs [debhelper options] [-A] [-Xitem] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_installdirs – create subdirectories in package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installdirs [debhelper options] [-A] [dir …] DESCRIPTION dh_installdirs is a debhelper program that is responsible for creating subdirectories in package build directories. Many packages can get away with omitting the call to dh_installdirs completely. Notably, other dh_* commands are expected to create directories as needed. FILES debian/package.dirs…
NAME dh_installdebconf – install files used by debconf in package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installdebconf [debhelper options] [-n] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_installdebconf is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by debconf into package build directories. It also automatically generates the postrm commands needed to interface with debconf. The commands are added to the maintainer…
NAME dh_installdeb – install files into the DEBIAN directory SYNOPSIS dh_installdeb [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_installdeb is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files into the DEBIAN directories in package build directories with the correct permissions. FILES package.postinst package.preinst package.postrm package.prerm These maintainer scripts are installed into the DEBIAN directory. Inside the scripts, the token…