On Wed 24 Jul 2019 6:45 PM, Paco Esteban wrote:
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:
$ MANPATH=/usr/local/share/man:
$ echo $MANPATH
/usr/local/share/man:
$ man nmap
man: No entry for nmap in the manual.
However, this will work:
$ man -M /usr/local/share/man: nmap
That will at least get it to load the manpage.
Creating a /etc/man.conf page and adding the entry into it gets man pages to
load.
Thanks for the tips and time!
