How to Install and Uninstall help2man Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "help2man" package

Please follow the instructions below to install help2man on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall help2man on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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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 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: help2man
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.48.1
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: 506
Depends: perl, libc6 (>= 2.3.4), liblocale-gettext-perl, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Filename: pool/universe/h/help2man/help2man_1.48.1_amd64.deb
Size: 181724
MD5sum: fb7c0c275b5a8a5fdb2377154f081590
SHA1: be48250e46519a55e7dd81a7652a3f2509b3e343
SHA256: 2a6aaf80841a128497de78f76417d5193a5aec4d9d62d57de91a955da0dae51d
SHA512: 4c6466608f538c39b980804fe9a89eef40eecceb230a11eff3277db3c5a809726c5f3b32380f0b2902c8af10fd8c74ee58112267c7ba3ac8fc1cc67745d3817f
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