UPDATE-DLOCATEDB
Section: dlocate (8)
Updated: 2016-06-20
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NAME
update-dlocatedb - generate text database of installed files for dlocate
SYNOPSIS
update-dlocatedb
DESCRIPTION
update-dlocatedb
generates a plain text package contents listing
from the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list
This program is usually called from cron.daily.
OPTIONS
- -p
-
Update the packages list only
- -j
-
Update the files list only
- -b
-
Update both (default)
- -h
-
This help message
FILES
- /etc/default/dlocate
-
Configuration file with default options. Currently the only option is
to enable/disable gzip compression of the dlocatedb file.
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/var/lib/dpkg/info
Directory containing dpkg file lists
-
- /var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb
-
Plain text listing of all files belonging to all packages (optionally compressed)
- /var/lib/dlocate/dpkg-list
-
Listing of all packages known to dpkg.
This contains the reformatted output output of 'dpkg -l'. The file format is four fields separated by tabs:
status [TAB] package-name [TAB] installed version [TAB] short description
The "installed version" field may contain an architecture, e.g. ":arch"
SEE ALSO
dlocate(1)
AUTHOR
This version of update-dlocatedb was written by Fredrik Hallenberg,
Craig Sanders, and Pawel Chmielowski.
The manual page was written by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at
downhill.at.eu.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
others, under the terms of the GNU GPL).
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