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

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "whichman" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install whichman on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall whichman on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: whichman
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.4-10
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Robert Luberda
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 77
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Filename: pool/universe/w/whichman/whichman_2.4-10_amd64.deb
Size: 19844
MD5sum: 1d46b59c14c89fd9c4ded103a52976de
SHA1: e31c1e5b926d223fffe5fad056683e9e559a5eca
SHA256: a4be71f62b3204a4cb9cedbbe1939d817c8c4afe0b0425c62fcd09a8c774cb6b
SHA512: 9874dc0b0a0e90eb59f22d8c4218c69cd4824f485db926fa1f74f62a4aac9ef826140862ef9b64b1a310923ab3ceebb4797f3fb3acfc699c7693c977252d6d77
Homepage: http://linuxfocus.org/~guido/#whichman
Description-en: Fault tolerant search utilities: whichman, ftff, ftwhich
whichman uses a fault tolerant approximate matching algorithm to search
for man-pages that match approximately the specified name.
The fault tolerant matching is very useful in cases where you remember only
roughly the name of a command.
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Example: whichman netwhat
This finds netstat.8: /usr/share/man/man8/netstat.8
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ftff searches the directory tree. This is a case in-sensitive and fault
tolerant way of 'find . -name xxxx -print'.
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ftwhich finds files which are in one of the directories in your PATH
and uses a fault tolerant search algorithm.
Description-md5: 544ce06170526d5dad4c72a5d2ce739c