DEB-GVIEW(1)

💖 DEB-GVIEW 💖

okay bestie, so this is the deb-gview manual page (section 1, iykyk) and it's literally about the GNOME viewer for .deb package files and what's inside them 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

deb-gview — a GNOME viewer for .deb package files and their contents 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

deb-gview shows you the Debian control info, the devscript details, and the deets on every file that would get installed (names, sizes, and where they'd land). Files inside the package can be viewed within the package or externally, your call 💅

deb-gview takes package files right on the command line so the 'open' command in all your various file managers just works — one window per package, no cap. Individual views can be closed independently, or all at once with 'Quit'. iconic.

Packages do not need to be installed to be viewed. They also don't need to be suitable for installation, e.g. a foreign architecture. we're just looking, not committing 🫶

Package files and .changes files can be viewed from local and remote filesystems. obsessed.

When loading .changes files, deb-gview will load each referenced package in a new window. And when you open a .changes file from the deb-gview toolbar, the original window is not changed. important!!

When opening Debian package files from the deb-gview toolbar, the package data will replace the current window data. so like, heads up 🫣

💫 Usage:

deb-gview [OPTIONS] [file...]

🧚 COMMAND:

• file — one or more Debian package files (.deb) to preload, or a .changes file referencing various package files.

Individual package files, or a set of packages referenced in a .changes file, can be viewed from local and remote filesystems. 🌈

🎀 GUI Options:

See also gtk-options (7). (yes, go look, bestie)

• --display=DISPLAY — X display to use

⭐ Help Options:

• -h, --help — show help options
• -v, --version — show version number

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🎀 FILE PREVIEWS 🎀

deb-gview has migrated to the XDG specification for config files 💅 and it uses a dot-file in your XDG config directory (default: ~/.config/deb-gview/preview) to specify which applications should be used to preview files from the package. You are free to edit this file — deb-gview will not modify it, although the defaults will be replaced if the file is deleted. (so like, don't delete it unless you want the factory reset, bestie 😭)

Any previous config in ~/.deb-gview/preview will be moved into the new file, but the ~/.deb-gview directory will be preserved — feel free to delete it once any other files are moved to the new location. it's giving moving day 📦

The first matching pattern will be used, so put the most general wildcards (like *) at the end of this file. order matters, periodt ✨

💜 GROUPS

The first group contains two deb-gview default settings. 'terminal' determines which application to use for viewers that need a terminal. You may want to change this to gnome-terminal or konsole from the rather limited xterm default. 'execute_command' specifies the command to pass to the terminal application to load an external command within the terminal. Most terminal emulators support '-e' for this command.

Subsequent group names need to be unique but have no other meaning to deb-gview. 🦋

🌸 KEYS

• pattern — glob-style pattern to match the location of the file in the package (not the filesystem).
• viewer — the program to call to view the file content (which must exist in your system PATH).
• use_terminal — whether to start the viewer in a terminal, TRUE or FALSE.
• binary_file — whether the viewer requires the content as a binary file, TRUE or FALSE. Typically, image previews require a binary file.
• file_suffix — if the viewer needs a specific suffix, specify it here. Note that deb-gview does not insist that the suffix of the temporary file matches the suffix of the file within the package — it is up to you to ensure that the suffix is suitable for the viewer you want to use. Leave blank for no suffix.

👑 DEFAULT VALUES

The defaults for file previews are:

# Your choice of terminal application.
#
[deb-gview]
terminal=xterm

[manual pages]
pattern=./usr/share/man/man*/*
viewer=man
use_terminal=true
binary_file=false
file_suffix=

[HTML]
pattern=*.html
viewer=sensible-browser
use_terminal=false
binary_file=false
file_suffix=html

[PNG]
pattern=*.png
viewer=qiv
use_terminal=false
binary_file=true
file_suffix=png

[text]
pattern=*
viewer=gedit
use_terminal=false
binary_file=false
file_suffix=

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💅 AUTHOR 💅

deb-gview was written by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>. 👑

This manual page was written by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>.

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🔥 REPORTING BUGS 🔥

deb-gview is a native Debian package and bugs should be reported using the reportbug tool. Reports can be found on the Debian bug tracking system for deb-gview.

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=deb-gview[1]

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

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📝 NOTES

1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=deb-gview http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖✨ this one's DEB-GVIEW 0.3.8, dated 22 April 2008 — yes, a vintage icon, and we respect her for it 🎀🦋💅