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mwoodpatrick

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Registered: 2023-05-14

Posts: 14

Resolved: Problem installing man pages

I am fairly new to using Arch Linux. I have installed Arch Linux both in a Docker container and in WSL-2. I have installed the man pages using:

    pacman -Sy man-db  man-pages

When I do:

    man ls

or:

   man man

or

    man 5 passed

I get:

    No manual entry for <command specified>

How do I actually get man pages to display

Last edited by mwoodpatrick (2023-05-15 00:30:55)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: Resolved: Problem installing man pages

The docker images have an adjusted pacman.conf that does not extract the usual documentation paths (...to save space) you'll need to adjust that and reinstall the packages whose docs you want

https://github.com/archlinux/archlinux- … tract.conf

Last edited by V1del (2023-05-14 12:33:39)

mwoodpatrick

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Registered: 2023-05-14

Posts: 14

Re: Resolved: Problem installing man pages

Many thanks, that fixed it, much appreciated.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,337

Re: Resolved: Problem installing man pages

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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