UPDATE-HOOGLE(8)

💖 UPDATE-HOOGLE 💖

okay bestie, so this is update-hoogle from section 8 of the manual — that's the System Manager's Manual, the big-kid one 💅 — and it lives on Debian GNU/Linux. it's literally the little cutie that refreshes your hoogle database. that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

update-hoogle — update hoogle database

like, that's it. that's the job. it updates the hoogle database. iconique 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

update-hoogle

no flags. no args. no drama. you just run it and it does its thing. main character energy fr fr 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so here's the tea ☕ this program creates the hoogle database for a Debian system. it goes around collecting all the haddock documents, and then it builds the database that the hoogle command actually uses. that's the whole pipeline, bestie — collect the docs, make the database 🔥

now the part that lowkey matters: this program is called by hoogle's postinst script automatically. so most of the time you never even think about it, it just happens on its own like magic ✨ but you can run this program manually too, if your hoogle database is broken. so if things are giving "database? never heard of her" energy, that's your moment — run it by hand and let it cook 🍓

💜 FILES 💜

• /var/lib/hoogle/databases — this is where the hoogle database files live 🏠 they are updated by the update-hoogle command. so yeah, this directory is the whole point of the operation. treat it with respect, she's doing a lot 🙈

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Kiwamu Okabe <kiwamu@debian.or.jp> — the legend who made this happen, we stan 🫶

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• hoogle(1)
• haddock(1)
• deb-triggers(5)

go read those too if you want the full lore, iykyk 📚

ngl, if your hoogle database is acting up, just run update-hoogle manually and see if that fixes it. no cap, that's literally what it's for 💖

and that's a wrap on the update-hoogle(8) page from Debian GNU/Linux, dated September 2012 — yeah she's an elder but she still slays, and honestly? iconic behavior 👑💅 bye bestie, go update something 🦋✨