Install recoll-lens (as of 26 March 2012 this works only for 11.10):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install recoll-lens recoll
Run recoll (open dash, type recoll and there you are), and create an index (it might take some time) - the app will ask for it itself when first run. (In preferences, you may want to set it up so that it reindexes your files regularly or on the fly.) Then logout and login and you have a new lens that provides full-text search. It is accessible from general Dash as well (after hitting super).
Information taken from http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/recoll-lens-full-text-search-unity-lens.html
The man pages are usually get installed with software. So, If you install a software with manpages, the manpages will be automatically installed.
Manual pages in a Web browser
By installing man2html
You can install man2html
package to your computer to view the manual pages in your favorite browser:
sudo apt-get install man2html
By installing doc-central
There is another tool which view manpages
in browser, it is called doccentral
. You can install it with the following command:
sudo apt-get install doc-central
Downloading manual pages:
You can download the latest manual pages from here. The size was also included in the page
Manual pages in PDF !:
Yes, you can even get the manual pages in pdf file format. for example, if you want to generate manual page for man
the command will be :
man -t man | ps2pdf - man.pdf.
This will generate a manual page, named man.pdf
in the current directory of the terminal. replace man
with your desired one, such as grep
or apt-get
etc.
Info pages in browser.
Though it is not asked in the question, I include it as general reference.
You can also have the GNU info pages (which are more elaborate and helpful) in a web browser by installing info2www
package. The command is below:
sudo apt-get install info2www
Hope this will help
Best Answer
This command will show you the filenames of man files that contain the keyword
Stallman
:Output in my 15.10 begins with:
Then, you can browse as usual, with
man cat
,man comm
, etc.