Man page

A man page (short for manual page) is software documentation. It contains documentation about programs, libraries, system calls and configuration files.

Installation
is part of the system set and should be installed by default on Gentoo systems.

, which provides many basic man pages, is also part of the system set. If localized man pages are desired, set the LINGUAS variable in, e.g. for German:

Most packages install additional man pages. To negate man page installation, add the following feature to :

man
Man pages can be viewed using the man command:


 * man 5 ebuild - Shows the ebuild man page of section 5.
 * man ebuild - Shows the ebuild man page of section 1. When there is more than on man page with same name, the first found will be shown.

man uses the default pager (typically ) to display man pages. The default pager can be modified using the eselect pager command.

Navigation of a man page can be performed using the and  arrow keys (or the  and  keys if Vim navigation is preferred). Scroll page wise with the and  keys. Search using the key followed by the search term.

A more thorough explanation can be found in the Navigate sub article.

Konqueror
KDE Konqueror can render man pages. Enter in the address bar   followed by the man page name, e.g.:  . To view a specific section, add the section in parentheses, e.g.:  .

apropos
apropos (part of ) can search the whatis database for strings, e.g.: