Ubuntu Manpage: debi - install current version of generated Debian package

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 dpkg -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 will only be useful if it is either  being  run
       as root or dpkg can be run as root.

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).

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>.