Installing man pages

Part 2 of the Netbook Newbie's Guide to Linux explains that man pages are not installed by default on AAO's Linpus. Following his examples, through terminal, I did the following:

sudo yum install man-pages-uk

Followed by: sudo yum install man

Followed by: makewhatis

At this point, man man returns information, but everything else just returns "no entry for ..." whatever command I type.

What am I missing about installing man pages?

 

I mistyped the last command, which should have been: sudo makewhatis

 

Not sure what's going on here, but while man [command] doesn't work after installing/indexing man pages, [command] --help | less seems to work just fine; e.g., ls --help | less

Alternatively, appropos [command] | less

Whatever floats your boat. I'm still curious why plain old man doesn't work, but at least I can access command reference information now.

 

I solved my problem:

Code:

sudo yum install man-pages

Works like a charm.