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class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">The <a href="/wiki/Debian" title="Debian">Debian</a> Project</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">January 1994<span class="noprint">; 31 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1994-01</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-first-release_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-first-release-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">1.22.18<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-514ba18ca737f9e6cfe2633de31b9599fc4458a7-v18_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-514ba18ca737f9e6cfe2633de31b9599fc4458a7-v18-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q305892?uselang=en#P348" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span> / 9 March 2025</div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Repository_(version_control)" title="Repository (version control)">Repository</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://git.dpkg.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git">git<wbr />.dpkg<wbr />.org<wbr />/git<wbr />/dpkg<wbr />/dpkg<wbr />.git</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q305892#P1324" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at 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class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">42 languages<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Package_manager" title="Package manager">Package manager</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GPLv</a>2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg">wiki<wbr />.debian<wbr />.org<wbr />/Teams<wbr />/Dpkg</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>dpkg</b> is the <a href="/wiki/Software" title="Software">software</a> at the base of the package management system in the <a href="/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free</a> operating system <a href="/wiki/Debian" title="Debian">Debian</a> and its numerous <a href="/wiki/Debian_family" class="mw-redirect" title="Debian family">derivatives</a>. <code>dpkg</code> is used to install, remove, and provide information about <a href="/wiki/Deb_(file_format)" title="Deb (file format)">.deb</a> <a href="/wiki/Package_(package_management_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Package (package management system)">packages</a>. </p><p><code>dpkg</code> (Debian Package) itself is a low-level tool. <a href="/wiki/APT_(Debian)" class="mw-redirect" title="APT (Debian)">APT</a> (Advanced Package Tool), a higher-level tool, is more commonly used than <code>dpkg</code> as it can fetch packages from remote locations and deal with complex package relations, such as dependency resolution. Frontends for APT, like <a href="/wiki/Aptitude_(software)" title="Aptitude (software)">aptitude</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ncurses" title="Ncurses">ncurses</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Synaptic_(software)" title="Synaptic (software)">synaptic</a> (<a href="/wiki/GTK" title="GTK">GTK</a>), are used for their friendlier interfaces. </p><p>The Debian package "dpkg" provides the <code>dpkg</code> program, as well as several other programs necessary for run-time functioning of the packaging system, including <code>dpkg-deb</code>, <code>dpkg-split</code>, <code>dpkg-query</code>, <code>dpkg-statoverride</code>, <code>dpkg-divert</code> and <code>dpkg-trigger</code>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also includes the programs such as <code>update-alternatives</code> and <code>start-stop-daemon</code>. The Debian package "dpkg-dev" includes the numerous build tools described below. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dpkg&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first attempt at a package management system for Linux was possibly the development of Stop<a href="/wiki/Alopecia" class="mw-redirect" title="Alopecia">Alop</a> by Greg Wettstein at the Roger Maris Cancer Center in Fargo, North Dakota. It provided inspiration for the creation of dpkg.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> dpkg was originally created by <a href="/wiki/Ian_Murdock" title="Ian Murdock">Ian Murdock</a> in January 1994 as a <a href="/wiki/Shell_script" title="Shell script">Shell script</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-first-release_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-first-release-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Matt_Welsh_(computer_scientist)" title="Matt Welsh (computer scientist)">Matt Welsh</a>, Carl Streeter and <a href="/wiki/Ian_Murdock" title="Ian Murdock">Ian Murdock</a> then rewrote it in <a href="/wiki/Perl" title="Perl">Perl</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then later the main part was rewritten in <a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a> by <a href="/wiki/Ian_Jackson_(computer_programmer)" title="Ian Jackson (computer programmer)">Ian Jackson</a> in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name <i>dpkg</i> was originally a shortening of "Debian package", but the meaning of that phrase has evolved significantly, as dpkg the software is orthogonal to the <a href="/wiki/Deb_(file_format)" title="Deb (file format)">deb package format</a> as well as the Debian Policy Manual which defines how Debian packages behave in Debian. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development_tools">Development tools</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dpkg&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Development tools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>dpkg-dev contains a series of development tools required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These include: </p> <ul><li><b>dpkg-source</b> packs and unpacks the source files of a Debian package.</li> <li><b>dpkg-gencontrol</b> reads the information from an unpacked Debian tree source and generates a binary package control package, creating an entry for this in Debian/files.</li> <li><b>dpkg-shlibdeps</b> calculates the dependencies of runs with respect to libraries.</li> <li><b>dpkg-genchanges</b> reads the information from an unpacked Debian tree source that once constructed creates a control file (.changes).</li> <li><b>dpkg-buildpackage</b> is a control script that can be used to construct the package automatically.</li> <li><b>dpkg-distaddfile</b> adds a file input to debian/files.</li> <li><b>dpkg-parsechangelog</b> reads the changes file (changelog) of an unpacked Debian tree source and creates a conveniently prepared output with the information for those changes.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="dselect">dselect</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dpkg&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: dselect"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The dpkg source package also contains <b>dselect</b>, a frontend software.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="install-info">install-info</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dpkg&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: install-info"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <code>install-info</code> program used to be included in the dpkg software package, but was later removed<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as it became developed and distributed separately, as part of <a href="/wiki/GNU_Texinfo" class="mw-redirect" title="GNU Texinfo">GNU Texinfo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="wpkg"><span class="anchor" id="wpkg"></span>wpkg</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dpkg&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: wpkg"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>wpkg</b> was created as a dpkg look-alike that would run under the <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> operating system.<sup id="cite_ref-Fox-book_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fox-book-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It retained <a href="/wiki/.deb" class="mw-redirect" title=".deb">.deb</a> file format compatibility.<sup id="cite_ref-wpkg-home_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpkg-home-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It subsequently evolved to include functionality similar to parts of the <a href="/wiki/APT_(software)" title="APT (software)">APT</a> suite, improved repository management, distribution management and was ported to <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> and <a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a> systems.<sup id="cite_ref-wpkg-doc-build_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpkg-doc-build-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wpkg-doc-repo_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wpkg-doc-repo-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of March 2024<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dpkg&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the most recent release of the software was in 2015.<sup 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