How To Install help2man on Debian 10

Learn how to install help2man on Debian 10 with this tutorial. help2man is Automatic manpage generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install help2man on Debian 10.

What is help2man

help2man is:

Program to create simple man pages from the –help and –version output of other 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.

There are three methods to install help2man on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install help2man Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install help2man using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install help2man

Install help2man Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install help2man using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install help2man

Install help2man 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 help2man using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install help2man

How To Uninstall help2man on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove help2man

Uninstall help2man And Its Dependencies

To uninstall help2man and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove help2man

Remove help2man Configurations and Data

To remove help2man configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge help2man

Remove help2man configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove help2man configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge help2man

Dependencies

help2man have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install help2man package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.