How to access the manpage fo a flatpak application?

abrac

8/21/24, 10:59 AM

Where does one find the manpage of a flatpak application?

For example, I know that Thunderbird usually has a manpage. However, I have tried the following two commands to no avail.

[user ~]$ man thunderbird
No manual entry for thunderbird

[user ~]$ flatpak run --command="bash" org.mozilla.Thunderbird
[ org.mozilla.Thunderbird ~]$ man thunderbird
bash: man: command not found

Note: There is a similar question on askUbuntu, however, it is related to a specific software, and the answer pertains to that software only.

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guiverc

8/21/24, 11:08 AM

`man` pages are installed when you install an application (*for default deb packages*). Those pages will only exist in other formats (such as *flatpak*) IF they are created/packaged with the pages... ie. if the creator of the flatpak didn't package or allow for it; it won't work. Your `man thunderbird` example failed I suspect due to $PATH for the flatpak shell & is unrelated; and I don't see your connection with the other question which to me applies as it was generic (alas didn't apply to containerized packages). This is my opinion only.

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vanadium

8/21/24, 12:10 PM

Flatpaks were primarily developed for graphical user applications. As such, there does not appear to be standard provisions to integrate with the man system, so a flatpak typically will not install a local man page.

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