# man2html mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, pacman installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für man2html in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:man2html
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install man2html
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install man2html
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: man2html from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install man2html
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: man2html from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S man2html
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: man2html from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:man2html
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/man2html>
- **Version:** 3.0.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Convert nroff man pages to HTML
- **Homepage:** <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man2html/>
- **Repository:** <https://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs?group=man2html>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man2html>
- **Lizenz:** GPL-2.0-or-later
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://www.mhonarc.org/release/misc/man2html3.0.1.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- man2html (cli)
- man2html (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-08
- Manager-Version: 3.0.1
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man2html/
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

man2html is a Perl program that reads formatted nroff text from standard input and writes an HTML document to standard output. The official site also documents a CGI program for browsing a system's manual pages through a web browser.

### Projektgeschichte

The official NonGNU page says man2html was maintained solely by Earl Hood before it became a Savannah project in May 2003. The last pre-Savannah public release was version 3.0.1 in 1997, which the project continued to make available from CPAN-era distribution locations and the Savannah download area.

After the Savannah move, the project lived in GNU Savannah's NonGNU infrastructure with CVS, mailing-list archives, and project downloads. That makes it a small but historically useful bridge between roff manual pages and early web-based documentation browsing.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

man2html appears in traditional Unix and Linux packaging because it solves a narrow problem with few moving parts: convert formatted manual-page output into HTML, optionally behind a CGI interface. Its package-manager role is mostly as a compatibility utility rather than a modern documentation platform.

Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and Ubuntu package names show continuing downstream availability even though the upstream history is sparse and old.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The CLI reads formatted nroff from standard input and emits HTML on standard output, which makes it naturally scriptable with `man`, `nroff`, or documentation-generation jobs. The CGI component is for hypertext navigation over installed man pages.

Because it works on formatted nroff rather than owning a whole man-page database, man2html is often paired with existing manual systems rather than replacing them.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

man2html is package-nerd interesting because it preserves an older Unix documentation pattern: turn local manual pages into web pages without introducing a large documentation stack.

Its official sources are thin, so the safe history is short: Earl Hood maintenance, a 1997 pre-Savannah release, and migration to Savannah in 2003.

### Zeitleiste

- 1997: Last pre-Savannah public release, version 3.0.1.
- 2003: man2html became a Savannah project.
- 2003: The official NonGNU page records the Savannah, CVS, and mailing-list project links.

### Related projects

- man2html sits beside man-db, mandoc, groff, nroff, and CGI manual-page browsers in the Unix documentation ecosystem.
- Its role overlaps with HTML output modes in newer tools such as mandoc, but its design is simpler and older.

### Quellen

- <https://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=man2html>
- <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man2html>
- <https://www.nongnu.org/man2html/>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** man2html
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - man2html - 1.6g-16: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: man2html from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | browse man pages in your web browser | http://users.actrix.gen.nz/michael/vhman2html.html
- Debian apt - man2html-base - 1.6g-16: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: man2html-base from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | convert man pages into HTML format | http://users.actrix.gen.nz/michael/vhman2html.html
- Ubuntu apt - man2html - 1.6g-16: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: man2html from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | browse man pages in your web browser | http://users.actrix.gen.nz/michael/vhman2html.html
- Ubuntu apt - man2html-base - 1.6g-16: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: man2html-base from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | convert man pages into HTML format | http://users.actrix.gen.nz/michael/vhman2html.html
- dnf - man2html - 1.6-41.g.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: man2html from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Convert man pages to HTML - CGI scripts | http://www.kapiti.co.nz/michael/vhman2html.html
- dnf - man2html-core - 1.6-41.g.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: man2html-core from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Convert man pages to HTML | http://www.kapiti.co.nz/michael/vhman2html.html
- pacman - man2html - 3.0.1-10: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: man2html from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A Unix manpage-to-HTML converter | https://www.nongnu.org/man2html/


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/man2html.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/man2html.yml)


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- Nucleus package database
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- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph