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How to find manpages (Was: Re: external drive)



Gene Heskett writes:

On Monday 02 December 2019 03:09:57 Frank Weißer wrote:

> Hi Gene,Gene Heskett:
> > Just for S&G:
> > gene@coyote:~$ sudo apt install exfat
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > E: Unable to locate package exfat
>
> has to be
> ~$ sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
>
I have since discovered that they are already installed on this stretch
install, but man pages seem to be on missing list. Example:
gene@coyote:~$ man exfat-fuse
No manual entry for exfat-fuse
gene@coyote:~$ man exfat-utils
No manual entry for exfat-utils
gene@coyote:~$ man exfat
No manual entry for exfat

calling up synaptic and looking at package properties for the installed
packages hasn't been any help.  Sorta hard to figure out how to run it.

Just as a side note (I saw that the mapages have been found later in the
thread by going online): You can also search manpages by using the `apropos`
command (part of the man-db package) like this:

	$ apropos exfat
	dumpexfat (8)        - dump exFAT file system
	exfatfsck (8)        - check an exFAT file system
	exfatlabel (8)       - get or set an exFAT file system label
	fsck.exfat (8)       - check an exFAT file system
	mkexfatfs (8)        - create an exFAT file system
	mkfs.exfat (8)       - create an exFAT file system
	mount.exfat (8)      - mount an exFAT file system
	mount.exfat-fuse (8) - mount an exFAT file system

Here I have these installed (Debian 10.1/YMMV):

	$ aptitude search ~iexfat
	i A exfat-fuse       - read and write exFAT driver for F
	i   exfat-utils      - utilities to create, check, label

It might come handy in another occasion :)

HTH
Linux-Fan

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