Including man pages

[Oliver Schmitz]

Hi again,

after installing some new programms and libraries on my 11.i TCOE system I now want to include the corresponding man pages.
As I mentioned before I was used more only to use HP-UX than to administer it and therefore I am not familiar with some basic stuff. Including manpages is one of these topics. Can anybody give some hints to me concerning some of the following points:

- How to add man pages.
- Which format have manpage files to have (I found in /usr/share/ diffenten manX dirs with different .X files inside)
- Is there a specific routine (a script) to add man pages or can this be done only by place the files to a specific directory
- How can I get man pages from the utah server (I found them only in .html there. This is not valid I suppose)
- Is there a white paper about man pages?

Thanks a lot for some hints,

oliver

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
modify the environtment variable MANPATH adding the proper lines and after run "catman &" to rebuild the man pages.

if you want to know, the best way is a "man man"

HTH,
Massimo

[Alex Glennie]

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x288584534efbd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xfdc34e49c5cdd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

[yogesh_4]

you can give $MANPATH:add your path here. To set this permanantly u hv to add this either in .profile or in /etc/profile.

[David_246 · Accepted solution]

Hi Oliver,

To create a solution that is for future use very handy as well, please do :

/etc/profile:
if [ -r /etc/MANPATH ]
then
MANPATH=`cat /etc/MANPATH`
fi

export MANPATH

add your new path to /etc/MANPATH :
/path/to/man1:/path/to/man/2:/etc:/new/manpath

Regs David

[Umapathy S]

Oliver,
Check the previous answers and threads.

1. We can either add the man pages to /usr/share/man or /usr/local/man. Or let the man pages be in their locations and add the dirs to the /etc/MANPATH.

2. Check man man. Its has got all the explnations for your questions.

3. There is no specific routine, but you can write a script of your own.

4. Normally the depots come with the man pages also. So when you install them you will get the man pages.

5. No clues...

HTH,
Umapathy