Read manpages of uninstalled packages with debman
Posted by JoshTriplett on Thu 26 Oct 2006 at 14:22
Not sure if a manual page does what you need? Want to read the manual page first, before installing it? Use debman, from the debian-goodies package.
debman extracts manual pages from a Debian package and displays them with man. It can run in two different ways: debman -f pkg.deb manpage will view manpage from the uninstalled package pkg.deb, and debman -p pkg manpage will download the deb for pkg then display the manpage.
For example, try
debman -p git-core gitto read the git manual page without installing GIT from the git-core package.
Thanks for the tip !
This package also contains dpigs which shows which installed packages occupy the most space on the system.
It's pretty useful when you are a bit low on disk space.
I just run it, and was able to free more than 300Mo on my system: I forgot I had (amongst others) firefox-dbg installed...
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Arnaud
This package also contains dpigs which shows which installed packages occupy the most space on the system.
It's pretty useful when you are a bit low on disk space.
I just run it, and was able to free more than 300Mo on my system: I forgot I had (amongst others) firefox-dbg installed...
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Arnaud
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Posted by Anonymous (212.84.xx.xx) on Thu 26 Oct 2006 at 15:07
Or if you don't want to download the whole package just for reading a man page go to man.cx. It contains all manpages from the testing distribution and additional ones from other sources. Users can also add comments to illustrate special usages.
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