The manual page and help for the apt-ftparchive linux command. Apt-ftparchive generates index files for Debian archives. It supports many styles of generation, from fully automated to the functional replacement of dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources. Apt-ftparchive Package generates files from the .debs tree. The Package file contains each control field for each package, both the MD5 hash and the file size. The override file is supported to force the value of the Priority and Section fields.