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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)

                                11 January 2003