PKG-HELP(8)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, you're looking at PKG-HELP(8) — the System Manager's Manual page for pkg help, and its whole job is to display usage information for pkg commands. That's it. That's the vibe. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pkg help command

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

pkg help is your little backstage pass to the manual page for a pkg(8) command. When you invoke it with a valid command name, it opens the corresponding manual page using man(1). iconic behavior, honestly. ✨

If the command you specified is an alias defined in pkg.conf(5), then pkg help displays the alias expansion instead. lowkey helpful. 🦋

And when you invoke it with no arguments at all? It displays a brief usage summary of all available pkg(8) commands. a whole menu of possibilities. slay. 👑

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Display the manual page for the install command:

$ pkg help install

Display the manual page for pkg.conf(5):

$ pkg help pkg.conf

Display all available commands:

$ pkg help

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

All the related manual pages, no cap: pkg_create(3), pkg_printf(3), pkg_repo_create(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-keywords(5), pkg-lua-script(5), pkg-repository(5), pkg-script(5), pkg-triggers(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg(8), pkg-add(8), pkg-alias(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-autoremove(8), pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-create(8), pkg-delete(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8), pkg-key(8), pkg-lock(8), pkg-plugins(8), pkg-query(8), pkg-register(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-repositories(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-search(8), pkg-set(8), pkg-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8), pkg-triggers(8), pkg-unregister(8), pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8), pkg-which(8)

okay that's the whole page! this one is from Debian, dated March 2, 2026, and it's PKG-HELP(8) — mwah 💋✨