---
name: "devtools"
section: "7"
platform: "linux"
package: "devtools"
version: "1:1.5.3-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/devtools"
---

# devtools(7)

Developer tools for the Arch Linux distribution

## NAME

devtools - Developer tools for the Arch Linux distribution

## DESCRIPTION

Devtools contains tools for package maintenance in Arch Linux. It comes with a unified command-line frontend called *pkgctl* that aids to conveniently interact with all the different tools this collection provides.

The toolset varies from tools for building packages in a clean chroot (*mkarchroot*, *archbuild*, ...), packaging related tools (*sogrep*, *diffpkg*, *lddd*) and tools for repository management such as (*pkgrepo*).

## PROGRAMS

The list below gives a short overview; see the respective documentation for details.

[pkgctl(1)](/pkgctl/1.md) Unified command-line frontend for devtools

[archbuild(1)](/archbuild/1.md) Build an Arch Linux package inside a clean chroot

[arch-nspawn(1)](/arch-nspawn/1.md) Run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace container

[checkpkg(1)](/checkpkg/1.md) Compare the current build package with the repository version

[diffpkg(1)](/diffpkg/1.md) Compare package files using different modes

[export-pkgbuild-keys(1)](/export-pkgbuild-keys/1.md) Export valid source signing keys from a PKGBUILD

[find-libdeps(1)](/find-libdeps/1.md) Find soname dependencies for a package

[find-libprovides(1)](/find-libprovides/1.md) Find soname’s which are provided by a package

[lddd(1)](/lddd/1.md) Find broken library links on your system

[mkarchroot(1)](/mkarchroot/1.md) Creates an arch chroot in a specified location with a specified set of packages

[makechrootpkg(1)](/makechrootpkg/1.md) Build a PKGBUILD in a given chroot environment

[makerepropkg(1)](/makerepropkg/1.md) Rebuild a package to see if it is reproducible

[sogrep(1)](/sogrep/1.md) Find packages using a linked to a given shared library

## HOMEPAGE

 *\<https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools\>*

*Please report bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker. Please do your best to provide a reproducible test case for bugs.*