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).

Debian Project                                     2009-06-03                                UPDATE-DLOCATEDB(8)