NAME¶

debman - read man pages from uninstalled packages

SYNOPSIS¶

debman -f filename [-- man(1) options] name debman -p package [-- man(1) options] name

DESCRIPTION¶

debman extracts a Debian package into a temporary directory and displays manual pages from it. If the -f option is used, it will use a local .deb file; if the -p option is used, it will download the named package using debget.

ENVIRONMENT¶

debman intentionally ignores any $MANPATH environment variable that might be set, and constructs its own such that only manual pages within the package will be displayed.

AUTHOR¶

debman was written by Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>.

SEE ALSO¶

debget(1)