Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)

[Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com>]

On 30/05/2020 10:52, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I the recent thread about returning a Debian installation to its
> original state "popularity-contest" was mentioned.
> 
> I wished to compare it to other tools mentioned in that thread.
> Obvious stating point -- read the man page.
> As I never installed its package I went to
> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.8.en.html
> .
> 
> It did not explicitly answer my question.
> However, under "SEE ALSO" it stated:
>> Additional documentation is in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/.
> 
> *PROBLEM*
> As package is not installed, that directory does *NOT* exist.
> 
> Where to find required documentation on the web?
> 
> NOTE BENE
> This post is about man pages as a class.

`sudo apt install popularity-contest`

then read the manual.