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Subject: Re: How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages
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On 7/14/2018 10:50 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?
> 

In addition to the other answers; maybe exporting those directories in 
the 'PATH' env variable...

-- 
John Doe

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