NAME

       update-dlocatedb - generate text database of installed files for dlocate

SYNOPSIS

       update-dlocatedb

DESCRIPTION

       update-dlocatedb generates a plain text package contents listing from the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list

       This program is usually called from cron.daily.

OPTIONS

       -p     Update the packages list only

       -j     Update the files list only

       -b     Update both (default)

       -h     This help message

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 compressed)

       /var/lib/dlocate/dpkg-list
              Listing of all packages known to dpkg.

              This contains the reformatted output output  of  'dpkg  -l'.   The  file  format  is  four  fields
              separated by tabs:

              status [TAB] package-name [TAB] installed version [TAB] short description

              The "installed version" field may contain an architecture, e.g. ":arch"

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, under the terms of the GNU GPL).