Package man-db: Information

Source package: man-db
Version: 2.10.2-alt1.1
Build time:  Sep 1, 2022, 12:30 PM in the task #306067
Category: System/Base
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Summary: Tools for searching and reading man pages
Description: 
The man-db package includes five tools for browsing man-pages:
man, whatis, apropos, manpath and lexgrog. man formats and displays
manual pages. whatis searches the manual page names. apropos searches the
manual page names and descriptions. manpath determines search path
for manual pages. lexgrog directly reads header information in
manual pages.

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
man-db (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
man-db-cron (noarch)
man-db-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)

Maintainer: Ilya Kurdyukov



    1. gdbm-devel
    2. perl
    3. pkgconfig(zlib)
    4. pkgconfig(libpipeline)
    5. gettext
    6. flex
    7. gnulib
    8. xz
    9. less
    10. groff-base
    11. groff-ps

Last changed


Sept. 1, 2022 Ilya Kurdyukov 2.10.2-alt1.1
- Replaced e2k patch with sed, because ifarch around patch declaraion doesn't keep the patch in the srpm.
Aug. 2, 2022 Alexey Gladkov 2.10.2-alt1
- New version (2.10.2).
Dec. 18, 2021 Alexey Gladkov 2.9.4-alt1
- New version (2.9.4).
- Build from upstream git repository.
- Use system gnulib.
- Update license tag.