Information about the package, man-pages, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The man-pages package is designed for, Man (manual) pages from the Linux Documentation Project.
Package Name:
man-pages
Summary:
Man (manual) pages from the Linux Documentation Project
Description:
A large collection of man pages (documentation) from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP).
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
3.22
Release:
20.el6
Size:
4.8 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ and GPL+ and BSD and MIT and Copyright only and IEEE
Control the man-pages package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install man-pages
This command will install man-pages on the server.
yum remove man-pages
This command will un-install man-pages on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove man-pages, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove man-pages
This command will un-install man-pages on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove man-pages when using the -y flag.
yum update man-pages
This command will update man-pages to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove man-pages, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update man-pages
This command will update man-pages to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove man-pages when using the -y flag.
yum info man-pages
This command will show you core information about the man-pages package.
yum deplist man-pages
This command will show you the dependencies for man-pages. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update man-pages
This command will check if there is an update waiting on man-pages. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.