debian man page for update-dlocatedb

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)