A list of man pages and what they do: apropos man
Example of apropos apt
Then use the man on any item in the list...
EDIT: I forgot my old favorite, before KDE appeared.
xman
which, ignoring the font warning, shows a small bash gui. On it is "Show Manual". When that GUI pops open it has two parts. The top part lists the commands. Click on a command and its man page shows in the bottom part. The xman gui has two menu options which show several other options.
Example of apropos apt
Code:
$ apropos apt add-apt-key (8) - Command line tool to add GPG keys to the APT keyring add-apt-repository (1) - Adds a repository into the /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d or removes an existing one airodump-ng (8) - a wireless packet capture tool for aircrack-ng apt (8) - command-line interface apt-add-repository (1) - Adds a repository into the /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d or removes an existing one apt-cache (8) - query the APT cache apt-cdrom (8) - APT CD-ROM management utility apt-config (8) - APT Configuration Query program apt-extracttemplates (1) - Utility to extract debconf config and templates from Debian packages apt-ftparchive (1) - Utility to generate index files apt-get (8) - APT package handling utility - - command-line interface apt-key (8) - APT key management utility apt-mark (8) - mark/unmark a package as being automatically-installed apt-rdepends (1) - performs recursive dependency listings similar to apt-cache apt-secure (8) - Archive authentication support for APT apt-show-source (1) - Lists source-packages. apt-show-versions (1p) - Lists available package versions with distribution apt-sortpkgs (1) - Utility to sort package index files apt.conf (5) - Configuration file for APT apt_preferences (5) - Preference control file for APT aptd (1) - package managing daemon proving a D-Bus interface aptdcon (1) - command line client for aptdaemon aptitude (8) - high-level interface to the package manager aptitude-create-state-bundle (1) - bundle the current aptitude state aptitude-curses (8) - high-level interface to the package manager aptitude-run-state-bundle (1) - unpack an aptitude state bundle and invoke aptitude on it AptPkg (3pm) - interface to libapt-pkg AptPkg::Cache (3pm) - APT package cache interface AptPkg::Config (3pm) - APT configuration interface AptPkg::hash (3pm) - a helper class for implementing tied hashes AptPkg::PkgRecords (3pm) - APT package description class AptPkg::Policy (3pm) - APT package version policy class AptPkg::Source (3pm) - APT source package interface AptPkg::System (3pm) - APT system abstraction class AptPkg::Version (3pm) - APT package versioning class apturl (8) - graphical apt-protocol interpreting package installer apturl-kde (8) - graphical apt-protocol interpreting package installer axi-cache (1) - query the Apt Xapian Index captoinfo (1) - convert a termcap description into a terminfo description debconf-apt-progress (1) - install packages using debconf to display a progress bar dvdxchap (1) - Extract chapter information from DVDs dvgrab (1) - Capture DV or MPEG-2 Transport Stream (HDV) video and audio data from FireWire Image::ExifTool::CaptureOne (3pm) - Read Capture One EIP and COS files Image::ExifTool::NikonCapture (3pm) - Read/write Nikon Capture information import (1) - saves any visible window on an X server and outputs it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the entire ... import.im6 (1) - saves any visible window on an X server and outputs it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the entire ... kazam (1) - Screen recording and capturing program. laptop-detect (8) - attempt to detect a laptop lmdb_table (5) - Postfix LMDB adapter Net::DNS::RR::NAPTR (3pm) - DNS NAPTR resource record org.debian.apt (7) - the main interface of aptdaemon org.debian.apt.transaction (7) - the main interface of an aptdaemon transaction sane-scsi (5) - SCSI adapter tips for scanners sources.list (5) - List of configured APT data sources synaptic (8) - graphical management of software packages synaptics (4) - touchpad input driver synclient (1) - commandline utility to query and modify Synaptics driver options. toshset (1) - manipulate bios and hardware settings of Toshiba laptops update-apt-xapian-index (8) - rebuild the Apt Xapian Index XkbApplyCompatMapToKey (3) - Apply the new compatibility mapping to an individual key to get its semantics updated XkbSAPtrDfltValue (3) - Returns the valueXXX field of act converted to a signed int xvinfo (1) - Print out X-Video extension adaptor information
EDIT: I forgot my old favorite, before KDE appeared.
xman
which, ignoring the font warning, shows a small bash gui. On it is "Show Manual". When that GUI pops open it has two parts. The top part lists the commands. Click on a command and its man page shows in the bottom part. The xman gui has two menu options which show several other options.
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