How To Install freebsd-manpages on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freebsd-manpages
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freebsd-manpages
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.