update-dlocatedb(8) - phpMan
UPDATE-DLOCATEDB(8) dlocate UPDATE-DLOCATEDB(8)
NAME
update-dlocatedb - generate text database of installed files for dlocate
SYNOPSIS
update-dlocatedb
DESCRIPTION
update-dlocatedb generates a plain text package contents listing dlocate from the files
/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list This program is usually called from cron.daily.
FILES
/etc/default/dlocate
Configuration file with default options. Currently the only option 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 (optionally com‐
pressed)
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).
Debian Project 2009-06-03 UPDATE-DLOCATEDB(8)
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