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custom man pages not in default man paths
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Our manual pages: /home/wikipedia/doc/man/ are no more in the
man config file :/

Probably just need to edit /etc/man.config and add the statement
MANPATH /home/wikipedia/doc/man/

Should let use them :)


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Severity: trivial

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 8:55 PM
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Or as avar suggested:
edit /etc/bash.bashrc.local

add:
MANPATH="$MANTPAH:/home/wikipedia/doc/man/"

river wrote:

bashrc only affects bash.

which systems don't have it in the man config?

looks good on zwinger now. man scap give me the manpage.

Looks like /etc/man.config:MANPATH /home/wikipedia/doc/man
solved the issue. Thanks :)