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<h1>man-db, the on-line manual database</h1>
<p><em>man-db</em> is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation
system accessed using the <code>man</code> command. It uses a Berkeley DB
database in place of the traditional flat-text whatis databases.
<em>man-db</em> is used by several popular GNU/Linux distributions,
including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.archlinux.org/">Arch Linux</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.dragora.org/">Dragora GNU/Linux</a></li>
<li><a href="https://getfedora.org/">Fedora</a> (as of 14)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.gentoo.org/">Gentoo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.opensuse.org/">openSUSE</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a></li>
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<p>It also compiles and runs on a number of proprietary Unix systems.</p>
<p>For macOS, you can install <em>man-db</em> using
<a href="https://brew.sh/">Homebrew</a> with
<a href="https://github.com/Alhadis/homebrew-troff">this "tap"</a>, or
using <a href="https://www.macports.org/">MacPorts</a> with
<code>sudo port install man-db</code>.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db">GitLab repository</a>
for <em>man-db</em> is updated with new releases reasonably frequently.</p>
<p>See the <a href="development.html">development page</a> for advice on how
to get involved with development.</p>
<p class="center"><img src="man.png" width="674" height="899" alt="man(1)" /></p>
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