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ASN2DEB(1)                                                     ASN2DEB(1)

NAME         top

       asn2deb - Create a Debian package for BER monitoring from ASN.1

SYNOPSIS         top

       asn2deb [ -a <ASN.1 file> ] [ --asn=<ASN.1 file> ] [ -d <opts> ] [
       --dbopts=<opts> ] [ -e <address> ] [ --email=<address> ] [ -h ] [
       --help ] [ -n <name> ] [ --name=<name> ] [ -p ] [ --preserve ] [
       -v ] [ --version ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       This manual page documents briefly the asn2deb command. asn2deb
       takes an ASN.1 file as input and creates a Debian package from it.
       The package contains a loadable type table file for the Wireshark
       network analyzer. The type table is generated by the ASN.1
       compiler esnacc.

OPTIONS         top

       -a <ASN.1 file> --asn=<ASN.1 file>
           ASN.1 file to use (mandatory).

       -d <opts> --dbopts=<opts>
           options for dpkg-buildpackage.

       -e <address> --email=<address>
           use e-mail address.

       -h --help
           print help and exit.

       -n <name> --name=<name>
           use user name.

       -p --preserve
           do not overwrite files.

       -v --version
           print version and exit.

EXAMPLES         top

       /usr/bin/asn2deb -e me@foo.net -a bar.asn1 \-n "My Name" -d
       "-rfakeroot -uc -us"-d "-rfakeroot -uc -us"

SEE ALSO         top

       A lot of tools are used, which you have to apt-get install:
       wireshark-dev, python, cdbs, autotools-dev, debhelper, dpkg-dev,
       esnacc.

COPYING         top

       This manual page was written by W. Borgert debacle@debian.org for
       Debian GNU/Linux (but may be used by others). Permission is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the
       terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later
       version published by the Free Software Foundation.

AUTHOR         top

       W. Borgert Author.

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 2003, 2005 W. Borger.SH COLOPHON This page is part of
       the wireshark (Interactively dump and analyze network traffic)
       project. Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨https://www.wireshark.org/⟩. If you have a bug report for this
       manual page, see
       ⟨https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues⟩. This page was
       obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At
       that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
       the repository was 2025-08-11.) If you discover any rendering
       problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
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       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       man-pages@man7.org

                                2025-03-07                     ASN2DEB(1)