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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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