How to Install and Uninstall manpages Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: December 23,2024

You can also install and uninstall the manpages on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "manpages" package

Learn how to install manpages on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                manpages
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "manpages" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall manpages on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the manpages package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: manpages
Version: 6.03-2
Installed-Size: 1548
Maintainer: Dr. Tobias Quathamer
Architecture: all
Replaces: initscripts (<< 3.0.0-1), inn2-dev (<< 2.6.5-1), manpages-dev (<< 5.09-2)
Suggests: man-browser
Breaks: initscripts (<< 3.0.0-1), inn2-dev (<< 2.6.5-1), manpages-dev (<< 5.09-2)
Description: Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
Description-md5: c655b859b2e2d890cebc6b412a58ef93
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Tag: made-of::man, role::documentation
Section: doc
Priority: standard
Filename: pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_6.03-2_all.deb
Size: 1331652
MD5sum: f79eccd26f3976b5aa85ba15425a5e2c
SHA256: efa1ba4cd19ad7baeae959c9209a7eb74be2ebb858bcabb412597bfc9f588c91