How To Install gman on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gman on Kali Linux.

What is gman

gman is:

Gman is a simple front-end for the manual page system. The most basic job of gman is to build a database for all the man pages and display them (or part of them) on the screen. When user decides to read a man page, gman will launch an external viewer to display the manual page. More than one external viewer windows can be launched at the same time.

The default manual page viewer is a terminal window with the original man(1). It can also launch gv, evince, or a link to a CGI script which utilizes man2html, for viewing manual pages using a web browser.

There is an index search function to look for the man pages that one needs. It’s simple, but it’s useful.

There are three methods to install gman on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gman Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gman using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gman

Install gman Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gman using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gman

Install gman Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gman using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gman

How To Uninstall gman on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gman package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gman

Uninstall gman And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gman and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gman

Remove gman Configurations and Data

To remove gman configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gman

Remove gman configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gman configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gman

Dependencies

gman have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• gman website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gman package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.