deb-gview - GNOME viewer for .deb package files and contents

deb-gview was written by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>.

       This manual page was written by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>

       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; if not, write
       to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

deb-gview displays Debian control information, devscript details and details of the files that would be
       installed (names, sizes and locations). Files within the package can be viewed within the package or
       externally.

       deb-gview accepts package files on the command line to support the 'open' command in various file
       managers, one window for each package. Individual views can be closed independently or simultaneously
       using 'Quit'.

       Packages do not need to be installed to be viewed. Packages do not need to be suitable for installation,
       e.g. a foreign architecture.

       Package files and .changes files can be viewed from local and remote filesystems.

       When loading .changes files, deb-gview will load each referenced package in a new window. When opening a
       .changes file from the deb-gview toolbar, the original window is not changed.

       When opening Debian packages files from the deb-gview toolbar, the package data will replace the current
       window data.

   Usage:
       deb-gview [OPTIONS] [file...]

   COMMAND:file
           One or more Debian package files (.deb) to preload or a .changes file referencing various package
           files.

           Individual package files or a set of packages referenced in a .changes file can be viewed from local
           and remote filesystems.

   GUIOptions:
       See also gtk-options (7).

       --display=DISPLAY
           X display to use

   HelpOptions:
       -h, --help
           Show help options

       -v, --version
           Show version number

deb-gview has migrated to the XDG specification for config files and uses a dot-file in your XDG config
       directory (default: ~/.config/deb-gview/preview) to specify which applications should be used to preview
       files from the package. You are free to edit this file, deb-gview will not modify it, although the
       defaults will be replaced if the file is deleted.

       Any previous config in ~/.deb-gview/preview will be moved into the new file but the ~/.deb-gview
       directory will be preserved - feel free to delete it once any other files are moved to the new location.

       The first matching pattern will be used, so put the most general wildcards (like *) at the end of this
       file.

   GROUPS
       The first group contains two deb-gview default settings. 'terminal' determines which application to use
       for viewers that need a terminal. You may want to change this to gnome-terminal or konsole from the
       rather limited xterm default. 'execute_command' specifies the command to pass to the terminal application
       to load an external command within the terminal. Most terminal emulators support '-e' for this command.

       Subsequent group names need to be unique but have no other meaning to deb-gview.

   KEYSpattern: glob-style pattern to match the location of the file in the package (not the filesystem).

       viewer: the program to call to view the file content (which must exist in your system PATH).

       use_terminal: whether to start the viewer in a terminal, TRUE or FALSE.

       binary_file: whether the viewer requires the content as a binary file, TRUE or FALSE. Typically, image
       previews require a binary file.

       file_suffix: if the viewer needs a specific suffix, specify it here. Note that deb-gview does not insist
       that the suffix of the temporary file matches the suffix of the file within the package, it is up to you
       to ensure that the suffix is suitable for the viewer you want to use. Leave blank for no suffix.

   DEFAULTVALUES
       The defaults for file previews are:

           # Your choice of terminal application.
           #
           [deb-gview]
           terminal=xterm

           [manual pages]
           pattern=./usr/share/man/man*/*
           viewer=man
           use_terminal=true
           binary_file=false
           file_suffix=

           [HTML]
           pattern=*.html
           viewer=sensible-browser
           use_terminal=false
           binary_file=false
           file_suffix=html

           [PNG]
           pattern=*.png
           viewer=qiv
           use_terminal=false
           binary_file=true
           file_suffix=png

           [text]
           pattern=*
           viewer=gedit
           use_terminal=false
           binary_file=false
           file_suffix=

       deb-gview - GNOME viewer for .deb package files and contents

        1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=deb-gview
           http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi

DEB-GVIEW 0.3.8                                   22 April 2008                                     DEB-GVIEW(1)

deb-gview is a native Debian package and bugs should be reported using the reportbug tool. Reports can be
       found on the Debian bug tracking system for deb-gview.

        http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=deb-gview[1]