How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages

[Thomas Wolff]

>> On 07/14/2018 04:50 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?
Works fine for me, in the usual place however, not using /usr/local:
/usr/share/man/alt/man1/foo.1
man -m alt foo

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