Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)

[Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com>]

On 5/30/20 3:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
...
> *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.
> 

apt show debian-goodies
...
debman     - Easily view man pages from a binary .deb without extracting
               [man, apt* (via debget)]

So...  ~$ dman packagename   # will fetch the manpages as though they
were local.

Regards,
Ralph