How to Install and Uninstall man-db Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "man-db" package

Please follow the steps below to install man-db on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: man-db
Priority: standard
Section: doc
Installed-Size: 2088
Maintainer: Colin Watson
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.7.5-1
Replaces: man, manpages-de (<< 0.5-4), manpages-zh (<< 1.5.2-1.1), nlsutils
Provides: man, man-browser
Depends: groff-base (>= 1.18.1.1-15), bsdmainutils, debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.17), libgdbm3 (>= 1.8.3), libpipeline1 (>= 1.4.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.16.1~)
Suggests: groff, less, www-browser
Conflicts: man, suidmanager (<< 0.50)
Breaks: manpages-zh (<< 1.5.2-1.1)
Filename: pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.7.5-1_amd64.deb
Size: 854130
MD5sum: e098c95a3fa869aa2b0009eded19686b
SHA1: 62c011e16e8ff6342feeb5810d0e226f4c4c3f2e
SHA256: 14fcc24209cd9f7d882e6b6b572e93c07f771d9bfbd579513851d5341af548bd
Description-en: on-line manual pager
This package provides the man command, the primary way of examining the
on-line 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: 1784ddc55da0897a54ad44c7e0a7f547
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://man-db.nongnu.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: standard, mythbuntu-backend-master, ubuntu-sdk