How do i display detailed information about a Debian package using dpkg?
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$ dpkg -s man-db Package: man-db Status: install ok installed Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: important Section: doc Installed-Size: 1724 Maintainer: Colin Watson < [email protected]>; Architecture: i386 Version: 2.6.1-2 Replaces: man, manpages-de (<< 0.5-4), nlsutils Provides: man, man-browser Depends: groff-base (>= 1.18.1.1-15), bsdmainutils, debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0, dpkg (>= 1.9.0), libc6 (>= 2.8), libgdbm3 (>= 1.8.3), libpipeline1 (>= 1.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Suggests: groff, less, www-browser Conflicts: man, suidmanager (<< 0.50) Conffiles: /etc/manpath.config 167675fd93075fb5f6ce1aa5f56a8a22 /etc/cron.daily/man-db 18745b8d583be7a4b7a00e9ffc98ac99 /etc/cron.weekly/man-db 643340ce3fb3994ef2ae7b88a2cf3230 Description: on-line manual pager This package provides the man command, the primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and zsoelim. man-db uses the groff suite of programs to format and display the manual pages. Homepage: http://man-db.nongnu.org/
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