Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

Scripts

In addition to the commands described in the next section, a number of shell and Perl scripts are included with the package manager for use in managing and building packages:

apt-file

Search for packages, specifying an action and a pattern to search for. (Perl script)

apt-rdepends

Recursively list dependencies. (Perl script)

dpkg-architecture

Determine and set the build and host architecture for package building. (Perl script)

dpkg-checkbuilddeps

Check installed packages against the build dependencies and build conflicts listed in the control file. (Perl script)

dpkg-buildpackage

A control script to help automate package building. (Shell script)

dpkg-distaddfile

Add an entry for a file to debian/files. (Perl script)

dpkg-divert

Create and manage the list of diversions, used to override the default location for installing files. (Perl script)

dpkg-genchanges

Generate an upload control file from the information in an unpacked, built source tree and the files it has generated. (Perl script)

dpkg-gencontrol

Read information from an unpacked source tree, generate a binary package control file (by default, debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control), and add an entry for the binary file to debian/files. (Perl script)

dpkg-name

Rename Debian packages to their full package names. (Shell script)

dpkg-parsechangelog

Read and parse the changelog from an unpacked source tree and write the information to standard output in machine-readable form. (Perl script)

dpkg-preconfigure

Let packages ask questions prior to installation. ...