How To Install help2man.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install help2man.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. help2man.noarch is Create simple man pages from –help output

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install help2man.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is help2man.noarch

help2man is a script to create simple man pages from the –help and –version output of programs. Since most GNU documentation is now in info format, this provides a way to generate a placeholder man page pointing to that resource while still providing some useful information.

We can use yum to install help2man.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install help2man.noarch.

Install help2man.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install help2man.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install help2man.noarch

How To Uninstall help2man.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the help2man.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove help2man.noarch

help2man.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/help2man
/usr/share/doc/help2man-1.41.1
/usr/share/doc/help2man-1.41.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/help2man-1.41.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/help2man-1.41.1/README
/usr/share/doc/help2man-1.41.1/THANKS
/usr/share/info/help2man.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/man/de/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/el/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/eo/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fi/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/hr/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sr/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/vi/man1/help2man.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install help2man.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.