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>.