How to Install and Uninstall man-db Package on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "man-db" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install man-db on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall man-db on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur):


    
        
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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 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Package: man-db
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.11.2-3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: standard
Section: doc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Colin Watson
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 2856
Provides: man, man-browser
Depends: bsdextrautils | bsdmainutils (<< 12.1.1~), groff-base, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.34), libgdbm6 (>= 1.16), libpipeline1 (>= 1.5.0), libseccomp2 (>= 2.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: apparmor, groff, less, www-browser
Conflicts: man
Replaces: man, nlsutils
Filename: pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.11.2-3_amd64.deb
Size: 1219830
MD5sum: 4cf7f55b75ac7718e35d244a1d1675c4
SHA1: ea22df8fa9bb8827bd284875c9ad1e26f6416508
SHA256: 366c0fb6005e61c800f165a23f979000bc735db74cdcd39cc5039962a8e45f59
SHA512: 04eb3ff7b032ed809b0ad613ff6856548b26875d6fab76fd6b0dc1ded7d909365937c977b10ddb263132e25c961bdd19aaeff7bf6802bf90bfa7ec2437d21c86
Homepage: https://man-db.gitlab.io/man-db/
Description: tools for reading manual pages
Description-md5: fa4d579e45a7d37a797e795644e2648b
Task: standard, ubuntu-wsl