man-db on Kali Linux

Last updated: January 05,2024

1. Install man-db package

This tutorial shows how to install man-db package:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install man-db

2. Uninstall / Remove man-db package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall man-db package:

sudo apt remove man-db

sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Details of man-db package

Package: man-db

Version: 2.10.2-2

Installed-Size: 2983

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, systemd | systemd-tmpfiles, 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: 1413404

SHA256: 02d3de6412b01f5776bf06f7abb70be00275dbbcb1afea30a59a7b05ec410df4

SHA1: f7735458b6ee7e80c94577e95ca59798d138e913

MD5sum: 639aec3f58d66976f207f2273d07f45a

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: fa4d579e45a7d37a797e795644e2648b

Multi-Arch: foreign

Homepage: https://nongnu.org/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_2.10.2-2_amd64.deb