/usr/bin/dpkg-deb

Usage: dpkg-deb [<option>...] <command>

Commands:
  -b, --build <directory> [<deb>]
          Build an archive.
  -c, --contents <deb>
          List archive filesystem contents.
  -I, --info <deb> [<cfile>...]
          Show archive metadata information.
  -W, --show <deb>
          Show archive metadata information, with specified format.
  -f, --field <deb> [<cfield>...]
          Show archive metadata fields.
  -e, --control <deb> [<directory>]
          Extract archive metadata files.
  -x, --extract <deb> <directory>
          Extract archive filesystem files.
  -X, --vextract <deb> <directory>
          Extract and list archive filesystem files.
  -R, --raw-extract <deb> <directory>
          Extract archive metadata and filesystem files.
      --ctrl-tarfile <deb>
          Output archive control tarfile.
      --fsys-tarfile <deb>
          Output archive filesystem tarfile.
  -?, --help
          Show this help message.
      --version
          Show the version.

<deb> is the filename of a Debian format archive.
<cfile> is the name of an administrative file component.
<cfield> is the name of a field in the main 'control' file.

Options:
      --showformat=<format>
          Use alternative format for --show.
      --deb-format=<format>
          Select archive format. Allowed values:
            0.939000, 2.0 (default).
      --no-check
          Suppress all checks (build bad packages).
      --nocheck
          Alias for --no-check.
      --root-owner-group
          Forces the owner and groups to root.
      --threads-max=<threads>
          Use at most <threads> with compressor.
          [env: DPKG_DEB_THREADS_MAX=]
  -Z, --compression=<compressor>
          Set build compression type. Allowed types:
            gzip, xz, zstd, none.
          [env: DPKG_DEB_COMPRESSOR_TYPE=]
  -z, --compression-level=<level>
          Set build compression level.
          [env: DPKG_DEB_COMPRESSOR_LEVEL=]
  -S, --compression-strategy=<name>
          Set build compression strategy. Allowed values:
            none; extreme (xz); filtered, huffman, rle, fixed (gzip).
      --uniform-compression
          Use the compression parameters on all members.
      --no-uniform-compression
          Use the compression parameters only on the data.tar member.
  -v, --verbose
          Enable verbose mode.
  -D, --debug
          Enable debugging mode.

Format syntax:
  A format is a string that will be output for each package. The format
  can include the standard escape sequences \n (newline), \r (carriage
  return) or \\ (plain backslash). Package information can be included
  by inserting variable references to package fields using the ${var[;width]}
  syntax. Fields will be right-aligned unless the width is negative in which
  case left alignment will be used.

Use 'dpkg' to install and remove packages from the system, or
'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management. Packages
unpacked using 'dpkg-deb --extract' will be incorrectly installed !