Debian – way to find installed binary packages which don’t have manpages

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I recently saw https://lintian.debian.org/tags/binary-without-manpage.html and it shows around 14k manpages which are missing.

This means it's more than likely that some of the binary packages (not libraries) have missing manpages. How do I get a list of installed binary packages/applications (NOT libraries) which don't have manpages? I might know some and start contributing a bit towards that.

Best Answer

You can list all binary without man page through manpage-alert command

manpage-alert - check for binaries without corresponding manpages

DESCRIPTION

   manpage-alert  searches the given list of paths for binaries without cor‐
   responding manpages.

   If no paths are specified on the command line, the path list  /bin  /sbin
   /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/games will be assumed
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