How to Install and Uninstall help2man Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "help2man" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install help2man on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Learn how to uninstall help2man on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: help2man
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.47.16
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 498
Depends: perl (>= 5.30.3-4), libc6 (>= 2.3.4), liblocale-gettext-perl, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Filename: pool/universe/h/help2man/help2man_1.47.16_amd64.deb
Size: 173044
MD5sum: 30a2e58eaff05265cd1647a2efd7ade1
SHA1: a6bcb483dbf9246aa953ae83fc6ca07dc3b53346
SHA256: 3cd298b51f567368ad008e8eba4c375f580e18f9e154049d8c30a495b97f3178
SHA512: 4e3c1d24c7db5b6849e5fbdcf961333901c72d12aa327434984528b374e3101c8a4db4e7d281be4dbf67b929200b1bd25b2cadfb3681fddec2644a8ef2ade6e2
Description-en: 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: 81b7f764f56e92da4f916f9b4836fe21