Can't find any man pages in Fedora Docker Image

Question

After installing the man pages via dnf, I still can't find them inside /usr/share/man.

docker run --rm -it fedora bash -c "dnf install -y man-pages && ls -lR /usr/share/man"

Did I miss something?

Answer 1

The default configuration for the docker version of fedora disable the installation of documentation.

cat /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

Check out the last line :

[main]
gpgcheck=1
installonly_limit=3
clean_requirements_on_remove=True
best=False
skip_if_unavailable=True
tsflags=nodocs

However, it is still possible to change the last line or override it like below command :

dnf install -y man-pages --setopt='tsflags='

Answer 2

I would liked to contribute as I was looking for the answer and I found the answer, from the link here Confirm the below line is removed from /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

tsflags=nodocs

and remove and reinstall the man pages using dnf

dnf install man man-pages man-db

Answer 3

Thank you for the flag, I was searching for long ... Once reactivated, if you want to install all man pages you can run this :

sudo dnf -y reinstall $(rpm -qads --qf "PACKAGE: %{NAME}\n" | sed -n -E '/PACKAGE: /{s/PACKAGE: // ; h ; b }; /^not installed/ { g; p }' | uniq)

It will simply reinstall all packages that have documentation with the man pages installed.