.\" dpkg manual page - dpkg.cfg(5) .\" .\" Copyright © 2002 Wichert Akkerman .\" Copyright © 2009, 2013, 2015 Guillem Jover .\" .\" This 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 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, see . . .TH dpkg.cfg 5 "2009-09-05" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite" .SH NAME dpkg.cfg \- dpkg configuration file . .SH DESCRIPTION This file contains default options for dpkg. Each line contains a single option which is exactly the same as a normal command line option for dpkg except for the leading hyphens which are not used here. Quotes surrounding option values are stripped. Comments are allowed by starting a line with a hash sign (\(oq\fB#\fR\(cq). . .SH FILES .I /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]* .br .I /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg .br .I ~/.dpkg.cfg . .SH AUTHOR See \fI/usr/share/doc/dpkg/THANKS\fP for the list of people who have contributed to \fBdpkg\fP. . .SH SEE ALSO .BR dpkg (1).