DEBMAN(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to DEBMAN(1) — the manual page from the General Commands Manual — and it's giving debman: read man pages from uninstalled packages. 🦋 no cap, that's the whole vibe. 💅

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

the way that there are three whole ways to run this? slay. iconic. periodt.

debman -f filename [-- man(1) options] name
debman -p package [-- man(1) options] name
debman -p package=version [-- man(1) options] name

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like, what does debman actually do? it extracts a Debian package into a temporary directory and displays manual pages from it. main character energy, honestly. 🫶

here's the tea, fr fr:

• -f — if this option is used, it will use a local .deb file.
• -p — if this option is used, it will download the named package using debget.
• package=version — if a version number is appended with = to the package name, the package of that version will be used (if known to APT).

lowkey obsessed with how simple that is. 🎀

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

ngl, debman intentionally ignores any $MANPATH environment variable that might be set, and constructs its own such that only manual pages within the package will be displayed. it's literally built different. 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

debman was written by Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>. legend behavior, we love to see it. 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

debget(1)

that's the whole SEE ALSO list, bestie. go peep it. iykyk. ✨

okay bestie, that's the whole page — DEBMAN(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 11 January 2003. bye 💅✨