How to Install and Uninstall man2html Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "man2html" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install man2html on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                man2html
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "man2html" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall man2html on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                man2html
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the man2html package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: man2html
Priority: optional
Section: universe/doc
Installed-Size: 133
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Robert Luberda
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.6g-8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, man2html-base (= 1.6g-8), gawk, man-db (>= 2.4.1), debianutils (>= 2.1), apache2 | httpd-cgi | lynx-cur
Suggests: swish++, lynx-cur | www-browser
Filename: pool/universe/m/man2html/man2html_1.6g-8_amd64.deb
Size: 29676
MD5sum: 4b0d6b8a08a6c58c4e4c6e1984a4c301
SHA1: c1b7c01ae3ca4ff33a4ba85efe2735411d54b427
SHA256: f9f920f974916d51e46926bdca59a50f339f674ceadf3d16f260c7c543263e6e
Description-en: browse man pages in your web browser
Point your web browser at http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html to read and
search your man pages in the browser.
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Features:
* Fast C CGI program for man/BSD-mandoc to HTML conversion.
* Works from the unformatted nroff/troff source.
* Source may be compressed.
* Does tbl tables (but not eqn equations).
* Generates hypertext links to foobar(1), abc@host, and xyzzy.h files
* CGI script for whatis-based alpha-indexes by section.
* CGI script for name-only alpha-indexes by section.
* CGI script for full text search (requires swish++)
* Front-end script to talk to a pre-launched netscape.
Description-md5: bf5a209de8e003c13cc102e80a39bd77
Homepage: http://users.actrix.gen.nz/michael/vhman2html.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu