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NAME
       pycentral - register and build utility for Python packages

SYNOPSIS
       pycentral [-h] [-v]  [] []

DESCRIPTION
       pycentral
	provides support for installing python modules independent
	of the current installed Python version and handling
	byte-compilation and -removal tasks in installation scripts.

OPTIONS
       -v, --version
	      Limit  the output to the version numbers of the python versions.

       -h, --help
	      Print a help text.

       pycentral has the following sub commands. For fine grained help,  call:
       pycentral .

       bccompile
	      Byte compile .py files in a package.

       bcremove
	      Remove the byte compiled .py files.

       pkginstall
	      Make a package available for all supported runtimes.

       pkgprepare
	      Prepare a package for all supported runtimes.

       pkgremove
	      Remove a package installed for all supported runtimes.

       rtinstall
	      Make installed packages available for this runtime.

       rtremove
	      Remove packages installed for this runtime.

       updatedefault
	      Update the default python version.

       debhelper
	      move   files  to	pycentral  locaation,  variable  substitutions
	      (called by dh_pycentral).

       pycentraldir 
	      Show the installation directory used by pycentral for .

       showdefault
	      Show  default  python  version  number.  Deprecated,  use pyver
	      sions(1)

       showsupported
	      Show the	supported  python  versions.  Deprecated,  use	pyver
	      sions(1)

       showversions
	      Show  version numbers of supported python versions.  Deprecated,
	      use pyversions(1) dh_pycentral, should not be called  directly).

       version
	      Show the pycentral version.


FILES
       /etc/python/debian_config  is  searched	for  the  attribute overwrite-
       local.	 If   set   to	  1,	or    True,    existing    files    in
       /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages are overwritten with symbolic links to
       the pycentral install area. The default is to abort the installation of
       a package, when files already exist. This behaviour may be useful, when
       python libraries were manually installed into this directory.


SEE ALSO
       pyversions(1), Python policy.

AUTHOR
       Matthias Klose



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