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DH_INSTALLMAN(1) Debhelper DH_INSTALLMAN(1)
dh_installman - install man pages into package build directories
dh_installman [debhelper options] [manpage ...]
dh_installman is a debhelper program that handles installing man
pages into the correct locations in package build directories.
In compat 10 and earlier, this program was primarily for when
upstream's build system does not properly install them as a part
of its install step (or it does not have an install step). In
compat 11 and later, it also supports the default searchdir plus
--sourcedir like dh_install(1) and has the advantage that it
respects the nodoc build profile (unlike dh_install(1)).
Even if you prefer to use dh_install(1) for installing the
manpages, dh_installman can still be useful for converting the
manpage encoding to UTF-8 and for converting .so links (as
described below). However, that part happens automatically
without any explicit configuration.
You tell dh_installman what man pages go in your packages, and it
figures out where to install them based on the section field in
their .TH or .Dt line. If you have a properly formatted .TH or .Dt
line, your man page will be installed into the right directory,
with the right name (this includes proper handling of pages with a
subsection, like 3perl, which are placed in man3, and given an
extension of .3perl). If your .TH or .Dt line is incorrect or
missing, the program may guess wrong based on the file extension.
It also supports translated man pages, by looking for extensions
like .ll.8 and .ll_LL.8, or by use of the --language switch.
If dh_installman seems to install a man page into the wrong
section or with the wrong extension, this is because the man page
has the wrong section listed in its .TH or .Dt line. Edit the man
page and correct the section, and dh_installman will follow suit.
See man(7) for details about the .TH section, and mdoc(7) for the
.Dt section. If dh_installman seems to install a man page into a
directory like /usr/share/man/pl/man1/, that is because your
program has a name like foo.pl, and dh_installman assumes that
means it is translated into Polish. Use --language=C to avoid
this.
After the man page installation step, dh_installman will check to
see if any of the man pages in the temporary directories of any of
the packages it is acting on contain .so links. If so, it changes
them to symlinks.
Also, dh_installman will use man to guess the character encoding
of each manual page and convert it to UTF-8. If the guesswork
fails for some reason, you can override it using an encoding
declaration. See manconv(1) for details.
From debhelper compatibility level 11 on, dh_install will fall
back to looking in debian/tmp for files, if it does not find them
in the current directory (or wherever you've told it to look using
--sourcedir).
debian/package.manpages
Lists man pages to be installed.
Supports substitution variables in compat 13 and later as
documented in debhelper(7).
-A, --all
Install all files specified by command line parameters in ALL
packages acted on.
--language=ll
Use this to specify that the man pages being acted on are
written in the specified language.
--sourcedir=dir
Look in the specified directory for files to be installed.
This option requires compat 11 or later (it is silently
ignored in compat 10 or earlier).
Note that this is not the same as the --sourcedirectory option
used by the dh_auto_* commands. You rarely need to use this
option, since dh_installman automatically looks for files in
debian/tmp in debhelper compatibility level 11 and above.
manpage ...
Install these man pages into the first package acted on. (Or
in all packages if -A is specified).
An example debian/package.manpages file could look like this:
doc/man/foo.1
# Translations
doc/man/foo.da.1
doc/man/foo.de.1
doc/man/foo.fr.1
# NB: The following line is considered a polish translation
# of "foo.1" (and not a manpage written in perl called "foo.pl")
doc/man/foo.pl.1
# ...
An older version of this program, dh_installmanpages(1), is still
used by some packages, and so is still included in debhelper. It
is, however, deprecated, due to its counterintuitive and
inconsistent interface. Use this program instead.
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
This page is part of the debhelper (helper programs for
debian/rules) project. Information about the project can be found
at [unknown -- if you know, please contact man-pages@man7.org] If
you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
submit@bugs.debian.org. This page was obtained from the project's
upstream Git repository
⟨https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper.git⟩ on 2025-08-11.
(At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
in the repository was 2025-08-10.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
man-pages@man7.org
13.23 2025-01-02 DH_INSTALLMAN(1)
Pages that refer to this page: dh_installmanpages(1), debhelper(7)
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