Package: man-db (2.5.2-1)

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Maintainer:

Colin Watson (QA Page)

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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.

Tags: User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Purpose: Searching, Data Visualization, Works with: Databases, Text, Supports Format: Manpages

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amd64	1,063.6 kB	2676 kB	[list of files]
arm	961.4 kB	2456 kB	[list of files]
armel	972.1 kB	2464 kB	[list of files]
hppa	1,029.3 kB	2548 kB	[list of files]
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i386	1,010.5 kB	2552 kB	[list of files]
ia64	1,322.8 kB	3724 kB	[list of files]
kfreebsd-amd64 (unofficial port)	1,069.7 kB	2240 kB	[list of files]
kfreebsd-i386 (unofficial port)	976.9 kB	2020 kB	[list of files]
m68k	966.9 kB	2468 kB	[list of files]
mips	1,022.3 kB	2816 kB	[list of files]
mipsel	1,015.1 kB	2816 kB	[list of files]
powerpc	1,035.8 kB	2676 kB	[list of files]
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