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I just learned about "man thing" in terminal a couple days ago. I had no idea they're kept in that folder.
what folder ? please tell me I'm just starting out. So far I've tried "man libwacom" (because I'm having trouble with my tablet) but it says there's no entry for the package. Do most packages usually have a manual entry ?
I found them under
/usr/share/man/, then "man1", "man2", "man3" etc. based on the category system (which I think is like, libraries, syscalls, exes, something like that)I intuited
/usr/sharebecause almost everything the package manager installs will be under/usrsomewhere, and man pages aren't binaries or libraries, they're architecture-independent, so they can't be/usr/bin/or/usr/lib, they'll probably be in/usr/shareand luckily I saw "man" under there.Hope that helps! Reading the FHS guide is a good learning experience but nobody should have to do it.
Thanks !! and I've bookmarked the FHS for future reference as well
Usually there are manual pages for commands, for libraries and drivers like libwacom it is less common, and they are not necessarily the same as the package name. Some packages also just have a Readme file or an HTML manual installed under /usr/share/doc or similar.
When unsure, I often just check the list of files that belong to a package, most package managers can do it. E.g. on Debian-based (i.e. apt using) distros,
dpkg -L $packagenamewill list it, in arch based distros it ispacman -Ql $packagename.Yes.
Try
man man;)