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Man-db - Reference manual page database and browser

This package provides the man command. This utility is 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, ctaman, and zsoelim. This package uses the groff suite of programs to format and display the manual pages.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.nongnu.org/man-db/
Source tarballhttp://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/man-db/man-db/src/
Version 2.3.20 (stable) released on 2001-09-07
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Announce List<man-db-announce@nongnu.org> http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/man-db-announce
Bug Databasehttp://bugs.debian.org/man-db

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repository-d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.nongnu.org:/cvsroot/man-db co man-db http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=man-db
Interfacescommand line
Programsman, mandb, manpath, whatis, apropos, zsoelim, accessdb, catman
Source languagesC, Perl, lex
Use requirementsgroff
Build prerequisitesPerl
Weak prerequisiteslibdb2-dev

Entry information

Entry compiled byColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

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