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dpkg-name(1) dpkg suite dpkg-name(1)
dpkg-name - rename Debian packages to full package names
dpkg-name [option...] [--] file...
This manual page documents the dpkg-name program which provides an
easy way to rename Debian packages into their full package names.
A full package name consists of
package_version_architecture.package-type as specified in the
control file of the package. The version part of the filename
consists of the upstream version information optionally followed
by a hyphen and the revision information. The package-type part
comes from that field if present or will fall back to deb.
-a, --no-architecture
The destination filename will not have the architecture
information.
-k, --symlink
Create a symlink, instead of moving.
-o, --overwrite
Existing files will be overwritten if they have the same name
as the destination filename.
-s, --subdir [dir]
Files will be moved into a subdirectory. If the directory
given as argument exists the files will be moved into that
directory otherwise the name of the target directory is
extracted from the section field in the control part of the
package. The target directory will be
«unstable/binary-architecture/section». If the section is not
found in the control, then no-section is assumed, and in this
case, as well as for sections non-free and contrib the target
directory is «section/binary-architecture». The section field
is not required so a lot of packages will find their way to
the no-section area.
Warning: Use this option with care, it is messy.
-c, --create-dir
This option can used together with the -s option. If a target
directory isn't found it will be created automatically.
Warning: Use this option with care.
-?, --help
Show the usage message and exit.
-v, --version
Show the version and exit.
DEB_HOST_ARCH
Sets the host architecture. This affects the architecture
name used in the package filename.
DPKG_COLORS
Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5). The currently
accepted values are: auto (default), always and never.
DPKG_NLS
If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native
Language Support, also known as internationalization (or i18n)
support (since dpkg 1.19.0). The accepted values are: 0 and 1
(default).
Some packages don't follow the name structure
package_version_architecture.deb. Packages renamed by dpkg-name
will follow this structure. Generally this will have no impact on
how packages are installed by dselect(1)/dpkg(1), but other
installation tools might depend on this naming structure.
dpkg-name bar-foo.deb
The file bar-foo.deb will be renamed to bar-foo_1.0-2_i386.deb
or something similar (depending on whatever information is in
the control part of bar-foo.deb).
find /root/debian/ -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a
All files with the extension deb in the directory /root/debian
and its subdirectory's will be renamed by dpkg-name if
required into names with no architecture information.
find -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a -o -s -c
Don't do this. Your archive will be messed up completely
because a lot of packages don't come with section information.
Don't do this.
dpkg-deb --build debian-tmp && dpkg-name -o -s .. debian-tmp.deb
This can be used when building new packages.
deb(5), deb-control(5), dpkg(1), dpkg-deb(1), find(1), xargs(1).
This page is part of the dpkg (Debian Package Manager) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/⟩. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, see
⟨http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=dpkg⟩. This
page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository ⟨git
clone https://git.dpkg.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git⟩ on 2025-02-02. (At
that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
the repository was 2025-01-16.) If you discover any rendering
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1.22.12-10-g32fee 2025-01-01 dpkg-name(1)
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