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NAME

       debi - install current version of generated Debian package

SYNOPSIS

       debi [options] [changes file] [package ...]

DESCRIPTION

       debi  figures out the current version of a package and installs it.  If a .changes file is
       specified on the command line, the filename must end with .changes, as  this  is  how  the
       program  distinguishes  it  from  package  names.  If not, then debi has to be called from
       within the source code directory tree.  In this case, it will look for the  .changes  file
       corresponding  to  the current package version (by determining the name and version number
       from the changelog, and the architecture in the same way  as  dpkg-buildpackage(1)  does).
       It  then runs debpkg -i on every .deb archive listed in the .changes file to install them,
       assuming that all of the .deb archives live in the same directory as  the  .changes  file.
       Note  that  you  probably  don't want to run this program on a .changes file relating to a
       different architecture after cross-compiling the package!

       If a list of packages is given on the command line, then only those  debs  with  names  in
       this list of packages will be installed.

       Since  installing  a  package requires root privileges, debi calls debpkg rather than dpkg
       directly.  Thus debi will only be useful if it is either being run as root or  debpkg  can
       be run as root.  See debpkg(1) for more details.

Directory name checking

       In  common  with  several  other  scripts  in  the devscripts package, debi will climb the
       directory tree until it finds a debian/changelog file.  As a safeguard against stray files
       causing potential problems, it will examine the name of the parent directory once it finds
       the debian/changelog file, and check that the directory name corresponds  to  the  package
       name.   Precisely  how  it  does  this  is  controlled by two configuration file variables
       DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL and DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX, and their corresponding
       command-line options --check-dirname-level and --check-dirname-regex.

       DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL can take the following values:

       0      Never check the directory name.

       1      Only  check the directory name if we have had to change directory in our search for
              debian/changelog.  This is the default behaviour.

       2      Always check the directory name.

       The directory name is checked by testing whether the current directory name (as determined
       by    pwd(1))    matches    the   regex   given   by   the   configuration   file   option
       DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX or by the command line option --check-dirname-regex  regex.
       Here  regex  is  a Perl regex (see perlre(3perl)), which will be anchored at the beginning
       and the end.  If regex contains a '/', then it must match the  full  directory  path.   If
       not,  then it must match the full directory name.  If regex contains the string ´PACKAGE',
       this will be replaced by the source package name, as determined from the  changelog.   The
       default  value  for  the  regex is: ´PACKAGE(-.+)?', thus matching directory names such as
       PACKAGE and PACKAGE-version.

OPTIONS

       -adebian-architecture, -tGNU-system-type
              See dpkg-architecture(1) for a description  of  these  options.   They  affect  the
              search  for  the  .changes file.  They are provided to mimic the behaviour of dpkg-
              buildpackage when determining the name of the .changes file.

       --debs-dir directory
              Look for the .changes and .deb files in directory instead  of  the  parent  of  the
              source directory.  This should either be an absolute path or relative to the top of
              the source directory.

       -m, --multi
              Search for a multiarch .changes file, as created by dpkg-cross.

       -u, --upgrade
              Only upgrade packages already installed on the system, rather than  installing  all
              packages  listed  in  the .changes file.  Useful for multi-binary packages when you
              don't want to have all the binaries installed at once.

       --check-dirname-level N
              See the above section Directory name checking for an explanation of this option.

       --check-dirname-regex regex
              See the above section Directory name checking for an explanation of this option.

       --with-depends
              Attempt to satisfy the Depends of a package when installing it.

       --tool tool
              Use the specified tool for installing the dependencies  of  the  package(s)  to  be
              installed.  By default, apt-get is used.

       --no-conf, --noconf
              Do  not  read  any  configuration files.  This can only be used as the first option
              given on the command-line.

       --help, --version
              Show help message and version information respectively.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts  are  sourced  in  that
       order  to  set  configuration  variables.   Command  line  options can be used to override
       configuration file settings.  Environment variable settings are ignored for this  purpose.
       The currently recognised variables are:

       DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR
              This  specifies the directory in which to look for the .changes and .deb files, and
              is either an absolute path or relative  to  the  top  of  the  source  tree.   This
              corresponds  to  the --debs-dir command line option.  This directive could be used,
              for example, if you always use pbuilder or svn-buildpackage to build your packages.
              Note  that it also affects debrelease(1) in the same way, hence the strange name of
              the option.

       DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL, DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX
              See the  above  section  Directory  name  checking  for  an  explanation  of  these
              variables.   Note  that  these  are  package-wide configuration variables, and will
              therefore affect all devscripts scripts which check their value,  as  described  in
              their respective manpages and in devscripts.conf(5).

SEE ALSO

       debpkg(1), devscripts.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       debi  was  originally written by Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>.  The now-defunct
       script debit was originally written by James R.  Van  Zandt  <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>.   They
       have  been moulded into one script together with debc(1) and parts extensively modified by
       Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.