man is the system’s manual pager. Each page argument given to man is normally the name of a program, utility or function. The Linux command “man” is used to display the manual page for other command and also will help you to explain the functions for the commands that commonly used. The term “man” is short for manual. On Fedora 16 minimum installation, “man” command has not been installed. In this post, i will show how to install “man” pages command on Linux Fedora 16 server.
You’ill get the following warning if you type man command on your Fedora 16 server.
-bash: man: command not found
To install “man” command, simply run the following line :
[root@fedora16 ~]# yum install man -y
Examples :
[root@fedora16 ~]# yum install man -y Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package man-db.i686 0:2.6.0.2-2.fc16 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: groff for package: man-db-2.6.0.2-2.fc16.i686 --> Processing Dependency: libpipeline.so.1 for package: man-db-2.6.0.2-2.fc16.i686 --> Processing Dependency: less for package: man-db-2.6.0.2-2.fc16.i686 --> Running transaction check ---> Package groff.i686 0:1.21-3.fc16 will be installed ---> Package less.i686 0:444-2.fc16 will be installed ---> Package libpipeline.i686 0:1.2.0-1.fc16 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ==================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ==================================================================================================== Installing: man-db i686 2.6.0.2-2.fc16 Fedora16-Repository 563 k Installing for dependencies: groff i686 1.21-3.fc16 Fedora16-Repository 1.9 M less i686 444-2.fc16 Fedora16-Repository 109 k libpipeline i686 1.2.0-1.fc16 Fedora16-Repository 47 k Transaction Summary ==================================================================================================== Install 4 Packages Total download size: 2.6 M Installed size: 9.3 M Downloading Packages: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 18 MB/s | 2.6 MB 00:00 Running Transaction Check Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : less-444-2.fc16.i686 1/4 Installing : groff-1.21-3.fc16.i686 2/4 Installing : libpipeline-1.2.0-1.fc16.i686 3/4 Installing : man-db-2.6.0.2-2.fc16.i686 4/4 Installed: man-db.i686 0:2.6.0.2-2.fc16 Dependency Installed: groff.i686 0:1.21-3.fc16 less.i686 0:444-2.fc16 libpipeline.i686 0:1.2.0-1.fc16 Complete!