Information about the package, txt2man, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The txt2man package is designed for, Convert flat ASCII text to man page format.
Package Name:
txt2man
Summary:
Convert flat ASCII text to man page format
Description:
tx2man is a shell script using gnu awk, that should run on any Unix-like system. The syntax of the ASCII text is very straightforward and looks very much like the output of the man(1) program.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.5.6
Release:
1.el6
Size:
23 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the txt2man package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install txt2man
This command will install txt2man on the server.
yum remove txt2man
This command will un-install txt2man on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove txt2man, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove txt2man
This command will un-install txt2man 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 txt2man when using the -y flag.
yum update txt2man
This command will update txt2man to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove txt2man, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update txt2man
This command will update txt2man 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 txt2man when using the -y flag.
yum info txt2man
This command will show you core information about the txt2man package.
yum deplist txt2man
This command will show you the dependencies for txt2man. 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 txt2man
This command will check if there is an update waiting on txt2man. 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.