How to Install and Uninstall help2man Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "help2man" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install help2man on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall help2man on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: help2man
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 420
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.47.3
Depends: perl (>= 5.20.2-6), libc6 (>= 2.3.4), liblocale-gettext-perl, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Filename: pool/universe/h/help2man/help2man_1.47.3_amd64.deb
Size: 110698
MD5sum: 5e58df80452e346fc28566af121151b0
SHA1: 69852852ad509f82bde03c56a30f6429f6d54c95
SHA256: 973db75d729f12c1e6e6e8598f80cf330044d7d4c9776005ca39b034c2d2e8cc
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
Multi-Arch: foreign
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu