Information about the package, help2man, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The help2man package is designed for, Create simple man pages from --help output.
Package Name:
help2man
Summary:
Create simple man pages from --help output
Description:
help2man is a script to create simple man pages from the --help and --version output of programs. Since most GNU documentation is now in info format, this provides a way to generate a placeholder man page pointing to that resource while still providing some useful information.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.36.4
Release:
6.el6
Size:
40 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the help2man package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install help2man
This command will install help2man on the server.
yum remove help2man
This command will un-install help2man on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove help2man, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove help2man
This command will un-install help2man 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 help2man when using the -y flag.
yum update help2man
This command will update help2man to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove help2man, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update help2man
This command will update help2man 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 help2man when using the -y flag.
yum info help2man
This command will show you core information about the help2man package.
yum deplist help2man
This command will show you the dependencies for help2man. 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 help2man
This command will check if there is an update waiting on help2man. 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.