Package man-db: Information

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

Source package: man-db
Version: 2.9.4-alt1
Latest version according to Repology
Build time:  Apr 29, 2022, 10:01 PM in the task #299224
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: Alexey Gladkov



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

Last changed


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.
May 3, 2020 Vladimir D. Seleznev 2.9.0-alt3
- NMU: Add missing requires: xz (ALT#38217).
Nov. 13, 2019 Alexey Gladkov 2.9.0-alt2
- The catman sometime needs to execute other utilities.