How to Install and Uninstall man2html Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "man2html" package

This tutorial shows how to install man2html on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "man2html" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall man2html on Kali Linux:


    
        
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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 man2html package on Kali Linux

Package: man2html
Version: 1.6g-16
Installed-Size: 142
Maintainer: Robert Luberda
Architecture: amd64
Depends: apache2 | httpd-cgi | lynx, gawk, man-db (>= 2.4.1), man2html-base (= 1.6g-16), sensible-utils, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.34)
Suggests: lynx | www-browser, swish++
Size: 32284
SHA256: 8a1edde577b8e1c7d36fdec68d13912f3b82137d8344d4fe58ca14360c488a63
SHA1: efc8d43bff22d6231107cdb1e84d73533fd08150
MD5sum: 6a0596845eebeeac785942496aa8675c
Description: browse man pages in your web browser
Point your web browser at http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html to read and
search your man pages in the browser.
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This program needs a CGI-capable HTTP server. After installation it might
be required to manually enable CGI support in the HTTP server (CGI may be
disabled by default for the security consideration). For apache2, this can
be done with the following:
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$ sudo a2enmod cgid
$ sudo systemctl restart apache2
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Features:
* Fast C CGI program for man/BSD-mandoc to HTML conversion.
* Works from the unformatted nroff/troff source.
* Source may be compressed.
* Does tbl tables (but not eqn equations).
* Generates hypertext links to foobar(1), abc@host, and xyzzy.h files
* CGI script for whatis-based alpha-indexes by section.
* CGI script for name-only alpha-indexes by section.
* CGI script for full text search (requires swish++)
* Front-end script to talk to a pre-launched netscape.
Description-md5:
Homepage: http://users.actrix.gen.nz/michael/vhman2html.html
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::web, role::program, use::converting,
web::cgi, works-with-format::html, works-with-format::man,
works-with::text
Section: doc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/man2html/man2html_1.6g-16_amd64.deb