---
name: "debci"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "debci"
version: "3.12"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/debci"
---

# debci(1)

Debian Continuous Integration debci COMMAND \[OPTIONS\] \[ARGUMENTS\]

## NAME

debci - Debian Continuous Integration

debci COMMAND \[OPTIONS\] \[ARGUMENTS\]

## DESCRIPTION

**debci** is the main entry point for debci programs. Most of the commands are intended to be used by the debci system itself. However, there are a few commands that are useful for users, and they are listed below.

- **debci setup** \[*OPTIONS*\]

  Sets up a test bed for running local tests. For most of the backends, this should be usually ran as root.

- **debci localtest** \[*OPTIONS*\] *SOURCEPACKAGE* \[*BINARY* ...\]

  Runs the tests from *SOURCEPACKAGE*, in exactly the same way they would be ran on *ci.debian.net*.

  *SOURCEPACKAGE* can be a source package name, a local *.dsc* file, a local *.changes* file, a local unpacked source package directory, or anything else that **[autopkgtest(1)](/autopkgtest/1.md)** would take as a source package.

  You can also pass any quantity of *BINARY* packages that will also be used in the test.

## COMMON OPTIONS

The following options apply to every debci command.

- \-c DIR, --config DIR

  Uses DIR as the debci configuration directory.

- \-a ARCH, --arch ARCH

  selects the architecture to run tests for (default: host architecture)

- \-b BACKEND, --backend BACKEND

  selects the backends to run tests on (default: lxc)

- \-s SUITE, --suite SUITE

  selects suite to run tests for (default: unstable)

- \-d DIR, --data-dir DIR

  The directory in which debci will store its data, and where it will read from.

- \--amqp amqp://\[user:password@\]hostname\[:port\]

  AMQP server to connect to (default: amqp://localhost)

- \-q, --quiet

  Prevents debci from producing any output on stdout. Errors and warnings will still be sent to stderr.

- \--help

  Display usage information.

## SEE ALSO

Local documentation (*/usr/share/debci/public/doc/index.html*), Online documentation (*https://ci.debian.net/doc/*), **[autopkgtest(1)](/autopkgtest/1.md)**.

## COPYRIGHT AND AUTHORS

Copyright © the debci development team. For details on authorship, refer to the git repository at *https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/debci/*

debci is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.