How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages
Jack
ostroffjh@aya.yale.edu
Sun Jul 15 04:32:00 GMT 2018
On 07/14/2018 04:50 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I've installed a few WSL distros for comparison and downloaded a bunch of other
> manpage sets and unpacked them:
> $ l src/man/*[0-9].tar.gz
> src/man/CentOS_7.1.tar.gz src/man/NetBSD_7.1.tar.gz
> src/man/Darwin_7.0.1.tar.gz src/man/OpenBSD_6.2.tar.gz
> src/man/Debian_8.1.0.tar.gz src/man/Red_Hat_Linux_i386_9.tar.gz
> src/man/FreeBSD_12.tar.gz src/man/SunOS_5.10.tar.gz
> src/man/FreeBSD_Ports_11.1.tar.gz src/man/SuSE_Linux_i386_11.3.tar.gz
> src/man/HP-UX_11.22.tar.gz src/man/X11_R7.4.tar.gz
>
> $ 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?
>
Purely a guess on my part, but should those directories all start with
"man" (or "cat") ?
Jack
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