IDL2DEB(1)

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👑 IDL2DEB(1) 👑

okay so bestie, welcome to the idl2deb manual page — yes it's section 1, yes it lives in the manuals, and yes it's about to make your CORBA life so much cuter. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

idl2deb — Create a Debian package for CORBA monitoring from IDL

like literally, it takes IDL and gives you a .deb. it's giving glow-up. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

idl2deb [ -d <opts> ] [ --dbopts=<opts> ] [ -e <address> ]
[ --email=<address> ] [ -h ] [ --help ] [ -i <idlfile> ]
[ --idl=<idlfile> ] [ -n <name> ] [ --name=<name> ] [ -p ]
[ --preserve ] [ -v ] [ --version ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this manual page is your lil' speedrun through the idl2deb command, no cap.

idl2deb takes a CORBA IDL file as input and creates a Debian package from it. and what's inside that package? a loadable module for the Wireshark network analyzer. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -d <opts>, --dbopts=<opts> — options for dpkg-buildpackage. hand it your build-package flags, it'll pass them along. ✨
  • -e <address>, --email=<address> — use e-mail address. yes address, as in ur email. 📧
  • -h, --help — print help and exit. classic. iconic. no notes. 🙈
  • -i <idlfile>, --idl=<idlfile> — IDL file to use (mandatory). like fr fr, you cannot skip this one, it's the whole point of the program 💀
  • -n <name>, --name=<name> — use user name.
  • -p, --preserve — do not overwrite files. protective queen behavior 🫶
  • -v, --version — print version and exit.

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

here's the example, verbatim, exactly as the ancestors wrote it 🧚

/usr/bin/idl2deb -e me@foo.net -i bar.idl \-n "My Name" -d "-rfakeroot -uc -us"-d "-rfakeroot -uc -us"

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

a LOT of tools are used, which you have to apt-get install:

  • wireshark-dev
  • python
  • cdbs
  • autotools-dev
  • debhelper
  • dpkg-dev

like bestie please install ur dependencies, don't make me beg 😭

🌈 COPYING 🌈

This manual page was written by W. Borgert debacle@debian.org for Debian GNU/Linux (but may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

W. Borgert Author.

Copyright © 2003, 2005 W. Borger

ok that's the whole page bestie, tysm for reading, ur doing amazing sweetie 💖 go build that package ✨

signing off from the IDL2DEB(1) page, dated 2026-10-01 — slay, periodt, mwah 💅🎀

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