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DH_INSTALL(1) Debhelper DH_INSTALL(1)
dh_install - install files into package build directories
dh_install [-Xitem] [--autodest] [--sourcedir=dir]
[debhelper options] [file|dir ... destdir]
dh_install is a debhelper program that handles installing files into
package build directories. There are many dh_install* commands that
handle installing specific types of files such as documentation,
examples, man pages, and so on, and they should be used when possible
as they often have extra intelligence for those particular tasks.
dh_install, then, is useful for installing everything else, for which
no particular intelligence is needed. It is a replacement for the old
dh_movefiles command.
This program may be used in one of two ways. If you just have a file
or two that the upstream Makefile does not install for you, you can
run dh_install on them to move them into place. On the other hand,
maybe you have a large package that builds multiple binary packages.
You can use the upstream Makefile to install it all into debian/tmp,
and then use dh_install to copy directories and files from there into
the proper package build directories.
From debhelper compatibility level 7 on, dh_install will fall back to
looking in debian/tmp for files, if it doesn't find them in the
current directory (or wherever you've told it to look using
--sourcedir).
debian/package.install
List the files to install into each package and the directory
they should be installed to. The format is a set of lines, where
each line lists a file or files to install, and at the end of the
line tells the directory it should be installed in. The name of
the files (or directories) to install should be given relative to
the current directory, while the installation directory is given
relative to the package build directory. You may use wildcards in
the names of the files to install.
Note that if you list exactly one filename or wildcard-pattern on
a line by itself, with no explicit destination, then dh_install
will automatically guess the destination to use, the same as if
the --autodest option were used.
debian/not-installed
Used with the deprecated --list-missing and --fail-missing
options. Please refer to dh_missing(1) for the documentation of
this file.
--list-missing
Deprecated: Please use dh_missing --list-missing instead. If you
use this option, dh_install will call dh_missing with that option
after it has processed all the files. Please see dh_missing(1)
for the documentation of this option.
This option is removed in compat 12.
--fail-missing
Deprecated: Please use dh_missing --fail-missing instead. If you
use this option, dh_install will call dh_missing with that option
after it has processed all the files. Please see dh_missing(1)
for the documentation of this option.
This option is removed in compat 12.
--sourcedir=dir
Look in the specified directory for files to be installed.
Note that this is not the same as the --sourcedirectory option
used by the dh_auto_* commands. You rarely need to use this
option, since dh_install automatically looks for files in
debian/tmp in debhelper compatibility level 7 and above.
--autodest
Guess as the destination directory to install things to. If this
is specified, you should not list destination directories in
debian/package.install files or on the command line. Instead,
dh_install will guess as follows:
Strip off debian/tmp (or the sourcedir if one is given) from the
front of the filename, if it is present, and install into the
dirname of the filename. So if the filename is
debian/tmp/usr/bin, then that directory will be copied to
debian/package/usr/. If the filename is debian/tmp/etc/passwd, it
will be copied to debian/package/etc/.
file|dir ... destdir
Lists files (or directories) to install and where to install them
to. The files will be installed into the first package
dh_install acts on.
dh_install cannot rename files or directories, it can only install
them with the names they already have into wherever you want in the
package build tree.
However, renaming can be achieved by using dh-exec with compatibility
level 9 or later. An example debian/package.install file using dh-
exec could look like:
#!/usr/bin/dh-exec
debian/default.conf => /etc/my-package/start.conf
Please remember the following three things:
· The package must be using compatibility level 9 or later (see
debhelper(7))
· The package will need a build-dependency on dh-exec.
· The install file must be marked as executable.
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
This page is part of the debhelper (helper programs for debian/rules)
project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debhelper/debhelper.git/⟩. If you
have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
submit@bugs.debian.org. This page was obtained from the project's
upstream Git repository
⟨https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debhelper/debhelper.git/⟩ on
2018-02-02. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that
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11.1.4 2018-01-23 DH_INSTALL(1)
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