On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, Jungle Boogie wrote: > Hi All, > > Turns out I don't know everything and I need to read man pages from > time-to-time. I'm sure you're like me and also want to consult the man pages. > How do you do it on applications you've installed from source? > > Reading makewhatis.8, I think this is the tool I would use. > > # makewhatis -D -a /usr/local/share/man
As far as I know, that will create a mandoc.db on /usr/local/share/man That's an index for use with apropos(1) and whatis(1). > but this doesn't work: > $ man 1 nmap > man: No entry for nmap in section 1 of the manual. > > What am I doing wrong? You have to tell man to look on other paths. That can be done setting the MANPATH env variable. In your case something like: MANPATH=/usr/local/share/man: Note the ':' at the end. That means that path will be prepended to the default list of paths to look for man pages. Check man(1) for more info. Cheers, -- Paco Esteban. https://onna.be/gpgkey.asc 9A6B 6083 AD9E FDC2 0EAF 5CB3 5818 130B 8A6D BC03
