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qman 1.5.1-1

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Descriptionmodern manual pages (manpages) viewer

Unix manual pages are lovely. They are concise, well-written, complete, and downright useful. However, the standard way of accessing them from the command-line hasn't changed since the early days. Qman aims to change that.

Qman is a modern, full-featured manual page viewer featuring hyperlinks, web browser like navigation, a table of contents for each page, incremental search, on-line help, and more. It also strives to be fast and tiny, so that it can be used everywhere.

Features: - Index page that displays all manual pages available on the system, sorted alphabetically and organized by section. - Pages for apropos and whatis results. - Hyperlinks to other manual pages. - Hyperlinks for URLs and email addresses. - Hyperlinks to files or directories in the local filesystem. - In-page hyperlinks. - A table of contents for each manual page. - Incremental search for manual pages. - Incremental free page text search. - Command-line options similar to those of man (most importantly, -k and -f). - Keyboard mappings similar to those of less. - Mouse support. - Navigation history. - On-line help. - Fully configurable using INI-style config files. - Manual page. - Support for several different manual page systems: ~ mandb - most Linux distributions; ~ mandoc - Void Linux, Haiku, others?; ~ freebsd - FreeBSD; ~ darwin - macOS. - Hyperlinks to files or directories in the local filesystem (new config option viewer_path can be used to specify the program for opening them). - New [capabilities] config file section enables users to disable several non-core program features. - Qman has several themes.

MaintainerJoao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org>
Changed ByJoao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org>
Sponsoreriberto@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/qman.git (browse)
Closes#1130964
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qman
Uploaded3 hours ago

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DateMon, 16 Mar 2026 19:42:39 -0300
Sourceqman
Version1.5.1-1
Changed-ByJoao Eriberto Mota Filho
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionunstable
Changelog
qman (1.5.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release. (Closes: #1130964)
.dsc
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listqman deb doc optional arch=any
Sectiondoc
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Source: https://github.com/plp13/qman
Upstream-Name: qman
Upstream-Contact: https://github.com/plp13/qman/issues

Files: *
Copyright: 2023-2025 Pantelis Panayiotou and others
License: BSD-2-clause

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2026 Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org>
License: BSD-2-clause

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