[kwlug-disc] No manpage in Snap packages?

[William Park]

Adding to MANPATH doesn't scale, unless they put it under /snap/man or 
something.  But, that's no different from /usr/man.

I'm now reading about Snap.  My feeling is, their focus is more on Snap 
Store.  From that perspective, manpage issue is not that bad.  Since I 
know where "jq" is (/snap/jq), I can find its manpage (find /snap/jq 
-name man), and do man directly (man /snap/jq/.../man/man1/jq.1.gz). 
Not all apps are suited for manpage.  If there are many sections (eg. 
zsh, btrfs), then html is better than manpage.


On 2022-06-06 12:09, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> It looks like there has been some official discussion about this, but
> it sounds as if it should have been fixed now? I admit I do not really
> understand the proposed solution.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1575593
> 
> But the workaround is to put paths in your MANPATH environment
> variable:
> 
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/764835/how-can-i-view-man-pages-for-apps-installed-via-snaps
> 
> (Sorry for doing the obvious searches about this. Your question got me
> curious.)
> 
> - Paul
> 
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 01:16:46AM -0400, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> OK, manpages are included, buried in /snap/jq and /snap/xmlstarlet.
>> The question is, then, how do you let "man" know?
>>
>> On 2022-06-06 00:57, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
>>> I installed "jq" and "xmlstarlet" utilities as Snap package in Kubuntu
>>> 22.04.� There are no manpages for these utilities!� Is this normal?� Or,
>>> is it just these packages?
>>>
>>> I removed them, and installed via 'apt install'.� Then, I find manpages
>>> as expected.
>>
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