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What is panel-test-applets for??

I don't know. But if I want to know I type:

$ whatis panel-test-applets

The answer is:

panel-test-applets (1) - display installed applets

I have the man page too, and I can read it:

$ man panel-test-applets

But there is no program with that name.

Maybe the command is not very useful, but is its man page more useful?

Does someone know how to install that program or what is its man page for when you cannot execute the program? I can't even execute the command:

$ panel-test-applets

nor 

$ panel-test-applets --help

which is the only thing its man page talks about!!

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According to Ubuntu Manpage Repository, panel-test-applets displays installed applets in a dialog box and does nothing else.

Q1. Why do I have man pages of commands that don't exist?

panel-test-applets is not a command but a program that is installed and run with gnome-panel which provides the panels for the the GNOME Desktop.

Q2. Maybe the command is not very useful, but is its man page useful?

It's man page provides information about the program and so, YES it is useful.

Q3. Does someone know how to install the command or what is its man page for?

I am not sure which command are you referring to here, besides commands are not installed, but programs are.

If you are asking about installing gnome-panel which also installs panel-test-applets, you can run:

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
Peachy
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