man: equivalent in ubuntu

**mcduck** · September 16th, 2008

Originally Posted by Offramp

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I have been using the terminal for viewing, but became comfortable with the nicely formatted, version in Konqueror

I was hoping for a similar functionality in ubuntu (gnome desktop),

Cheer

Then use Yelp (Gnome's Help viewer). It can access manual and info pages as well. Just type press F1 to open Yelp and type man:yelp into the search field.

You can't do that in Nautilus since, unlike Konqueror, Nautilus is "just a file manager" and doesn't come with document viewer, web browser and kitchen sink.

**Trail** · September 16th, 2008

The "man:", "info:", "fish:", etc are named KIO slaves and are part of the KDE technology, so they don't `automagically' work on GNOME.

**billgoldberg** · September 16th, 2008

Originally Posted by crazypenguin2008

ahh i see...i knwo my way around terminal pretty well but after 5 years im still learning stuff...thanks!!

You have been using the terminal for 5 years, but don't even know how to access a man page?

Something doesn't sound right.

**Vivaldi Gloria** · September 16th, 2008

Code:

man man

**Offramp** · September 16th, 2008

Thanks mcduck,

I had tried yelp previously, however it crashes when trying to navigate an info page (info:cpio -> use keyboard [also tried mouse] to select section and yelp closes). I have since installed man2html to view local man pages through browser and am researching info2html as well. It is not really a big issue, I have just become used to reading this much info through a browser rather than a terminal

Cheers

**Mornedhel** · September 16th, 2008

Originally Posted by billgoldberg

You have been using the terminal for 5 years, but don't even know how to access a man page?

Something doesn't sound right.

This had me wondering as well. 5 years of navigating the terminal and not once did he come across man ? Just weird.

Originally Posted by Offramp

I have just become used to reading this much info through a browser rather than a terminal

The day you hose your xorg and have to do everything from tty1, you'll see why this can be a bad thing. Or even the day you open a shell on a remote Linux box through ssh. (And they wonder why I use emacs.)