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📛 NAME

dpkg.cfg - dpkg configuration file

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Set default dpkg options	/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg	Main configuration file, one option per line, quotes stripped, # comments
User-specific configuration	~/.dpkg.cfg	Per‑user configuration file
Drop‑in configuration directory	/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]*	Additional configuration files placed in this directory

📖 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 (‘#’).

📁 FILES

• 📄 /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/[0-9a-zA-Z_-]*
• 📄 /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
• 📄 ~/.dpkg.cfg

🔗 SEE ALSO

dpkg(1)

1.21.1 2025-09-09 dpkg.cfg(5)

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