How to Install and Uninstall man-db Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "man-db" package

This is a short guide on how to install man-db on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                man-db
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "man-db" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall man-db on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                man-db
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the man-db package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: man-db
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.9.4-2
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: standard
Section: doc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Colin Watson
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 2912
Provides: man, man-browser
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.16.1~)
Depends: bsdextrautils | bsdmainutils (<< 12.1.1~), debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0, groff-base (>= 1.18.1.1-15), libc6 (>= 2.33), libgdbm6 (>= 1.16), libpipeline1 (>= 1.5.0), libseccomp2 (>= 2.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: apparmor, groff, less, www-browser
Conflicts: man
Breaks: manpages-tr (<< 1.0.5.1-3), manpages-zh (<< 1.5.2-1.1)
Replaces: man, manpages-de (<< 0.5-4), manpages-tr (<< 1.0.5.1-3), manpages-zh (<< 1.5.2-1.1), nlsutils
Filename: pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.9.4-2_amd64.deb
Size: 1153932
MD5sum: 790d2ca3c9c7b3876ccc22e745fa64e7
SHA1: 22bd5d9c9cb3bc1bed04b38d6198f79cea185418
SHA256: 5ea53f2639f172ab6d5cd5232b646cdc4e273ac3cb648d2a5c7d4f8b87c0867d
SHA512: d97e562f1f4749d807ce3f17da2f99b244050243bc92a37ed569a4fe87339e4e35622739cf7611b9cf73cfa0fe864c3cc8a737c4b7b9b5397590dd93fae85c80
Homepage: https://nongnu.org/man-db/
Description-en: 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
Task: standard