How To Install freebsd-manpages on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freebsd-manpages on Debian 9.
What is freebsd-manpages
freebsd-manpages is:
This package contains a selection of manual pages from FreeBSD that are useful on a GNU/kFreeBSD system: 2 = System calls (functions provided by the kernel) 4 = Special files (usually found in /dev) 9 = Kernel routines
There are three methods to install freebsd-manpages on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install freebsd-manpages Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freebsd-manpages using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freebsd-manpages
Install freebsd-manpages Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freebsd-manpages using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freebsd-manpages
Install freebsd-manpages Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install freebsd-manpages using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freebsd-manpages
How To Uninstall freebsd-manpages on Debian 9
To uninstall only the freebsd-manpages package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freebsd-manpages
Uninstall freebsd-manpages And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freebsd-manpages and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freebsd-manpages
Remove freebsd-manpages Configurations and Data
To remove freebsd-manpages configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freebsd-manpages
Remove freebsd-manpages configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freebsd-manpages configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freebsd-manpages
Dependencies
freebsd-manpages have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freebsd-manpages package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.