Modern, featureful implementation of the Unix man page system.
man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place of the traditional flat-text whatis databases. man-db is used by several popular Linux distributions, including: Arch, Debian, Dragora, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, and Ubuntu.
man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place of the traditional flat-text whatis databases. man-db is used by several popular Linux distributions, including: Arch, Debian, Dragora, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, and Ubuntu.
To install man-db, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install man-db
To see what files were installed by man-db, run:
port contents man-db
To later upgrade man-db, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade man-db
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