When I look at what I have installed via apt list --installed, why are there so many entries without manual pages?
I tried info [package name] and package name --help and get the output
bash: package name: command not found 
2 Answers
People think that you are looking for manual pages, because you erroneously think that you are looking for manual pages. To see descriptions of what the packages in that list actually are, use:
aptitude show ${PACKAGE_NAME}apt show ${PACKAGE_NAME}
Further reading
man [binary name] is the useful syntax to enter at the command line.
- 2It's not the
package namebut the binary that comes with it provided that it has a man page. The man pages are found in/usr/share/man/man#whereman#corresponds to/usr/share/man/man1,/usr/share/man/man2and so on and so forth.Nasir Riley– Nasir Riley2019-04-24 01:57:06 +00:00Commented Apr 24, 2019 at 1:57
dpkg -L package | grep /man | xargs -L 1 basename