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 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)

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).