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Package: man-db (2.5.2-2~bpo40+1 and others) [backports]

on-line manual pager

This package provides the man command, the primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and zsoelim. man-db uses the groff suite of programs to format and display the manual pages.

Other Packages Related to man-db

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: bsdmainutils
    collection of more utilities from FreeBSD
  • dep: debconf (>= 1.2.0)
    Debian configuration management system
    or debconf-2.0
    Package not available
  • dep: dpkg (>= 1.9.0)
    package maintenance system for Debian
  • dep: groff-base (>= 1.17.2-2)
    GNU troff text-formatting system (base system components)
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) [not alpha, i386, ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) [i386]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.5-1) [alpha, ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libgdbm3
    GNU dbm database routines (runtime version)
  • dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
    compression library - runtime
    also a virtual package provided by zlib1g-udeb

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alpha 2.5.2-2~bpo40+1 1,116.7 kB2980 kB [list of files]
amd64 2.5.2-2~bpo40+1 1,066.7 kB2169 kB [list of files]
arm 2.5.2-2~bpo40+1 1,000.4 kB2524 kB [list of files]
hppa 2.5.2-2~bpo40+1 1,069.3 kB2636 kB [list of files]
i386 2.5.2-2~bpo40+1 1,014.1 kB2552 kB [list of files]
ia64 2.5.2-2~bpo40+1 1,338.3 kB3788 kB [list of files]
mips 2.5.2-2~bpo40+1 1,073.0 kB2972 kB [list of files]
mipsel 2.5.2-2~bpo40+1+b1 1,075.5 kB2972 kB [list of files]
powerpc 2.5.2-2~bpo40+1 1,055.9 kB2724 kB [list of files]
s390 2.5.2-2~bpo40+1 1,052.8 kB2668 kB [list of files]
sparc 2.5.2-2~bpo40+1 1,001.0 kB2580 kB [list of files]