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+.TH SYNC\-AVAILABLE 8 2005-07-11 "Debian Project" "Debian administrator's manual"
+\" Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi>
+\" 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; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
+\" the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+\" Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+.SH NAME
+sync\-available \- sync dpkg's available database with apt's database
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B sync\-available
+.sp
+.B sync\-available --version
+.sp
+.B sync\-available --help
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This program updates the
+.BR dpkg (8)
+available database with the data in the
+.BR apt (8)
+package database. This is required for
+.BR grep\-available (1)
+and other similar programs to give up-to-date results.
+.PP
+The same functionality is available through
+.BR dselect (8),
+when it is configured to use
+.BR apt (8)
+as its acquisition method. However, this program does not require that
+.BR dselect (8)
+is installed.
+.SH "EXIT STATUS"
+The program exits with status code 0 if all went well, and a non-zero
+status code otherwise.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.IP --version
+Output the name and version of the program onto standard output stream.
+.IP --help
+Give a brief usage statement on the standard output stream.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+.IP TMPDIR
+The name of the directory where temporary files are created. Default is
+.IR /tmp .
+.SH AUTHOR
+This program and this manual page were written by Antti-Juhani
+Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org>.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR apt (8),
+.BR dpkg (8),
+.BR dselect (8),
+.BR grep\-available (1)