debman

Read a man page for a command that is provided by a specified package name

$ debman -p [package_name] [command_name]

Specify a package version to download

$ debman -p [package_name]=[version] [command_name]

Read a man page in a .deb file

$ debman -f [path/to/filename.deb] [command_name]

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

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. If a version number is appended with "=" to the package name, the package of that version will be used (if known to APT).

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.

debget(1)

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