Ubuntu – How to change manpage pager

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I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 with GNOME 3.16 and my current default pager for man is less (I think), but I would like to change it to something else like more, does anyone know how this could be achieved?

Best Answer

Use the environment variable MANPAGER

export MANPAGER=more

e.g. in your ~/.profile or systemwide in /etc/environment

Thus only is affected the man command.