How to Install and Uninstall help2man Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "help2man" package

Please follow the steps below to install help2man on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                help2man
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "help2man" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall help2man on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                help2man
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the help2man package on Kali Linux

Package: help2man
Version: 1.49.3
Installed-Size: 542
Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea
Architecture: amd64
Depends: perl:any, libc6 (>= 2.34), liblocale-gettext-perl
Size: 197928
SHA256: 9b17251751ee4e813df789ba39c25841b9e26bf44206fd53ce4d34bc2d761eed
SHA1: 8028f7dd074d14d00bd876e1319bf45ecfd7b558
MD5sum: 00145080da8a45512cd8ac47c8099134
Description: Automatic manpage generator
Program to create simple man pages from the --help and
--version output of other programs.
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Since most GNU documentation is now in info format, this provides a
way to generate a placeholder man page pointing to that resource while
still providing some useful information.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Tag: implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, suite::gnu, use::converting, works-with-format::man,
works-with::text
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/h/help2man/help2man_1.49.3_amd64.deb