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Package: man-db (2.9.1-1)

tools for reading manual pages

This package provides the man command, the primary way of examining the system 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.

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  • dep: bsdmainutils
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  • dep: debconf (>= 1.2.0)
    Debian configuration management system
    or debconf-2.0
    virtual package provided by cdebconf, cdebconf-udeb, debconf
  • dep: groff-base (>= 1.18.1.1-15)
    GNU troff text-formatting system (base system components)
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.28)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libgdbm6 (>= 1.16)
    GNU dbm database routines (runtime version)
  • dep: libpipeline1 (>= 1.5.0)
    Unix process pipeline manipulation library
  • dep: libseccomp2 (>= 2.1.0)
    high level interface to Linux seccomp filter
  • dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
    compression library - runtime

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