How To Install man-pages on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install man-pages on CentOS 7.
What is man-pages
A large collection of man pages (documentation) from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP).
We can use yum or dnf to install man-pages on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install man-pages.
Install man-pages on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install man-pages using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install man-pages
Install man-pages on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install man-pages using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install man-pages
How To Uninstall man-pages on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the man-pages package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove man-pages
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install man-pages on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
