update-dlocatedb(8)
NAME
update-dlocatedb - Generate database of installed files for dlocate
SYNOPSIS
update-dlocatedb
DESCRIPTION
update-dlocatedb generates a GNU locate style database for dlocate from
the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list This program is usually called from
cron.daily.
FILES
- /var/lib/dpkg/info
- dpkg file list
- /var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb
- generated database
SEE ALSO
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).