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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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