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Re: How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages
On 2018-07-15 00:39, john doe wrote:
> On 7/14/2018 10:50 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> I've installed a few WSL distros for comparison and downloaded a bunch of other
>> manpage sets and unpacked them:
>> $ l /proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local/share/man/
>> cat1/ debian@ man1p/ mann/ SunOS-5.10/
>> cat3/ Debian-8.1.0/ man2/ netbsd@ suse@
>> cat5/ freebsd@ man3/ NetBSD-7.1/ SuSE-11.3/
>> cat7/ FreeBSD-12-current/ man3p/ openbsd@ ubuntu@
>> cat8/ FreeBSD-ports-11.1-RELEASE/ man4/ OpenBSD-6.2/ x@
>> centos@ hpux@ man5/ ports@ X11R7.4/
>> CentOS-7.1/ HP-UX-11.22/ man6/ redhat@
>> darwin@ man0p/ man7/ RedHat-9-i386/
>> Darwin-7.0.1/ man1/ man8/ solaris@
>> but despite reading docs, adding links and changing configs, I'm unable to get
>> man/-db to access these with or without the -m system switch.
>> I know I must be missing some essential point, but searching has not come up
>> with anything to help me fix this.
>> Has anyone here set this up and can suggest an approach that will work?
> In addition to the other answers; maybe exporting those directories in the
> 'PATH' env variable...
I already tried listing them all at the end of man-db.conf and MANPATH.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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