How to Install and Uninstall man-db Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: July 05,2024

1. Install "man-db" package

This tutorial shows how to install man-db on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                man-db
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "man-db" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall man-db on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                man-db
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the man-db package on Kali Linux

Package: man-db
Version: 2.12.0-3
Installed-Size: 2982
Maintainer: Colin Watson
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: man, nlsutils
Provides: man, man-browser
Depends: bsdextrautils | bsdmainutils (<< 12.1.1~), groff-base, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.34), libgdbm6 (>= 1.16), libpipeline1 (>= 1.5.0), libseccomp2 (>= 2.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: apparmor, groff, less, www-browser
Conflicts: man
Size: 1401428
SHA256: 519c8e8237bb771790cd166bc5c1dfd6e46310138ac0bb6bcfc5911b69935f47
SHA1: bea064dfda3b00a3b3a2efec3954853cebe58460
MD5sum: 49715fba58be3308b984f3385641f033
Description: tools for reading manual pages
This package provides the man command, the primary way of examining the
system 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.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://man-db.gitlab.io/man-db/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::searching, use::viewing, works-with-format::man,
works-with::db, works-with::text
Section: doc
Priority: standard
Filename: pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.12.0-3_amd64.deb