How to Install and Uninstall help2man Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "help2man" package

This guide let you learn how to install help2man on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: help2man
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.48.4
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: 491
Depends: perl:any, libc6 (>= 2.3.4), liblocale-gettext-perl
Filename: pool/universe/h/help2man/help2man_1.48.4_amd64.deb
Size: 139032
MD5sum: 3e5a6f33e5f51f1dbc7349f7b991d2e7
SHA1: beae0307890dd37c81cea8a3cb8f08dcea7aa825
SHA256: 9120ad4ce2b9598fca5735d929dd89f3f4348e5a3472f466e1fbaa2aeb7df066
SHA512: 400605c7465f9203fe556359f530b5e8f7df5c5d294ffc043aab61cc4b174d76dcd23fd7c1f5c225f60b2ff727241619632296f27d01cc8c8cd2c27ac9eff352
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