How To Install man-db.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install man-db.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. man-db.x86_64 is Tools for searching and reading man pages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install man-db.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `man-db.x86_64`

The man-db package includes five tools for browsing man-pages man, whatis, apropos, manpath and lexgrog. man formats and displays manual pages. whatis searches the manual page names. apropos searches the manual page names and descriptions. manpath determines search path for manual pages. lexgrog directly reads header information in manual pages.

We can use yum to install man-db.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install man-db.x86_64.

Install man-db.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install man-db.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install man-db.x86_64

How To Uninstall man-db.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the man-db.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove man-db.x86_64

man-db.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/cron.daily/man-db.cron
/etc/man_db.conf
/etc/sysconfig/man-db
/usr/bin/apropos
/usr/bin/catman
/usr/bin/lexgrog
/usr/bin/man
/usr/bin/mandb
/usr/bin/manpath
/usr/bin/whatis
/usr/lib64/man-db
/usr/lib64/man-db/libman-2.6.3.so
/usr/lib64/man-db/libman.so
/usr/lib64/man-db/libmandb-2.6.3.so
/usr/lib64/man-db/libmandb.so
/usr/libexec/man-db
/usr/libexec/man-db/globbing
/usr/libexec/man-db/manconv
/usr/sbin/accessdb
/usr/share/doc/man-db-2.6.3
/usr/share/doc/man-db-2.6.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/man-db-2.6.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/man-db-2.6.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/man-db-2.6.3/README
/usr/share/doc/man-db-2.6.3/man-db-manual.ps
/usr/share/doc/man-db-2.6.3/man-db-manual.txt
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/man-db.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/man-db-gnulib.mo
/usr/share/man/es/man1/apropos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/manpath.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/whatis.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/zsoelim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man5/manpath.5.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man8/catman.8.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man8/mandb.8.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/apropos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/manpath.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/whatis.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/zsoelim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man5/manpath.5.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man8/accessdb.8.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man8/catman.8.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man8/mandb.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apropos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lexgrog.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/manconv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/manpath.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/whatis.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/manpath.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/accessdb.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/catman.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mandb.8.gz
/var/cache/man

References

man-db.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install man-db.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.