UPDATE-DLOCATEDB(8) dlocate UPDATE-DLOCATEDB(8)
NAME
update-dlocatedb - generate text database of installed files for dlo-
cate
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 op-
tion is to enable/disable gzip compression of the dlocatedb
file.
/var/lib/dpkg/info
Directory containing dpkg file lists
/var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb
Plain text listing of all files belonging to all packages (op-
tionally 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 down-
hill.at.eu.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
others, under the terms of the GNU GPL).
Debian Project 2016-06-20 UPDATE-DLOCATEDB(8)
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