BSD Ports

wip/man-db 2.7.5 NetBSD

Manual pager and related man page utilities

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc-wip
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
gnu-gpl-v2
Categories
wip, misc

Description

man-db is a collection of tools for using the online manuals. man-db uses a Berkeley DB database instead of the traditional flat-text whatis databases. It includes:

apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions catman - create or update the pre-formatted manual pages man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals mandb - create or update the manual page index caches manpath - determine search path for manual pages whatis - search the manual page names zsoelim - satisfy .so requests in roff input

This version of the man suite is maintained by Colin Watson.

Install

From pkgsrc-wip (no binary package):

cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/man-db && make install clean

Dependencies

Build dependencies 1
Run dependencies 2

No port depends on this one.