How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages

[Brian Inglis]

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/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  debian@Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  man1p/Â  mann/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  SunOS-5.10/
>> cat3/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Debian-8.1.0/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  man2/Â Â  netbsd@Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  suse@
>> cat5/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  freebsd@Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  man3/Â Â  NetBSD-7.1/Â Â Â Â  SuSE-11.3/
>> cat7/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  FreeBSD-12-current/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  man3p/Â  openbsd@Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  ubuntu@
>> cat8/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  FreeBSD-ports-11.1-RELEASE/Â  man4/Â Â  OpenBSD-6.2/Â Â Â  x@
>> centos@Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  hpux@Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  man5/Â Â  ports@Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  X11R7.4/
>> CentOS-7.1/Â Â Â  HP-UX-11.22/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  man6/Â Â  redhat@
>> darwin@Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  man0p/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  man7/Â Â  RedHat-9-i386/
>> Darwin-7.0.1/Â  man1/Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  man8/Â Â  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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