How To Install info2man on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install info2man on Debian 9.
What is info2man
info2man is:
This package provides the info2pod tool to convert GNU info documents into Perl’s POD (Plain Old Documentation) format. From there, they can be converted to manual pages to be viewed by people who prefer conventional pagers to the standard info viewer or Emacs.
The info2man tool uses info2pod and pod2man to perform the conversion in one step.
There are three methods to install info2man 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 info2man Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install info2man using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install info2man
Install info2man Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install info2man using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install info2man
Install info2man 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 info2man using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install info2man
How To Uninstall info2man on Debian 9
To uninstall only the info2man package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove info2man
Uninstall info2man And Its Dependencies
To uninstall info2man and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove info2man
Remove info2man Configurations and Data
To remove info2man configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge info2man
Remove info2man configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove info2man configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge info2man
Dependencies
info2man have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install info2man package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.