Dpkg(1) dpkg suite dpkg(1) NAMEdpkg - package manager for DebianSYNOPSIS dpkg option. action WARNINGThis manual is intended for users wishing to understand dpkg'scommand line options and package states in more detail than thatprovided by dpkg -help.It should not be used by package maintainers wishing to understandhow dpkg will install their packages.
So you can restore the file, if something goes wrong with the installation. And even Debian programs can be installed (see chapter 7.2.3). Other DotPup programs can be found on the Internet (Puppy-Forum) and downloaded (see chapter.
The descriptions of what dpkgdoes when installing and removing packages are particularlyinadequate.DESCRIPTION dpkg is a tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages.The primary and more user-friendly front-end for dpkg is aptitude(1).dpkg itself is controlled entirely via command line parameters, whichconsist of exactly one action and zero or more options. The action-parameter tells dpkg what to do and options control the behavior ofthe action in some way.dpkg can also be used as a front-end to. The list of supported actions can be found later on inthe ACTIONS section. If any such action is encountered dpkg just runsdpkg-deb or dpkg-query with the parameters given to it, but nospecific options are currently passed to them, to use any such optionthe back-ends need to be called directly.INFORMATION ABOUT PACKAGES dpkg maintains some usable information about available packages.
Theinformation is divided in three classes: states, selection states andflags.