How to Install groff-base in Ubuntu 18.04



Install groff-base by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install groff-base

Description:

GNU troff text-formatting system (base system components)

This package contains the traditional UN*X text formatting tools troff, nroff, tbl, eqn, and pic. These utilities, together with the man-db package, are essential for displaying the on-line manual pages. . groff-base is a stripped-down package containing the necessary components to read manual pages in ASCII, Latin-1, and UTF-8, plus the PostScript device (groff's default). Users who want a full groff installation, with the standard set of devices, fonts, macros, and documentation, should install the groff package.

Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/

Version: 1.22.3-10

Section: text