Package man-db: Information

  • Default inline alert: Version in the repository: 2.12.0-alt1

Source package: man-db
Version: 2.8.5-alt1
Latest version according to Repology
Build time:  Jul 1, 2019, 06:12 PM in the task #233574
Category: System/Base
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License: GPLv2+ and GPLv3+
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, i586, aarch64)
man-db-cron (noarch)
man-db-debuginfo (x86_64, i586, aarch64)

Maintainer: Alexey Gladkov



    1. gnu-config
    2. groff-base
    3. groff-ps
    4. less
    5. flex
    6. po4a
    7. perl
    8. libpipeline-devel
    9. gdbm-devel
    10. xz
    11. zlib-devel
    12. gettext

Last changed


June 29, 2019 Alexey Gladkov 2.8.5-alt1
- New version (2.8.5)
- Switch to release tarballs.
- Use %_tmpfilesdir.
June 21, 2019 Andrew Savchenko 2.7.6.1-alt5
- Add MCST-specific man path on e2k
May 4, 2017 Igor Vlasenko 2.7.6.1-alt4.1
- NMU: added Provides: man-whatis