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.txt file
/var/lib/dpkg/info
directory containing dpkg file lists
/var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb.txt
plain text listing of all files belonging to all packages (optionally compressed)
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)
