How To Install info2man on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install info2man on Kali Linux. info2man is Convert GNU info files to POD or man pages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install info2man on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 info2man using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install info2man

How To Uninstall info2man on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove info2man

Remove info2man Configurations and Data

To remove info2man configuration and data from Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.