Where is the man or manpage for a flatpak application?
How would I read the man
page for calibre
when it's installed from flatpak
as below?
nicholas@gondor:~$
nicholas@gondor:~$ flatpak info com.calibre_ebook.calibre
calibre - The one stop solution to all your e-book needs
ID: com.calibre_ebook.calibre
Ref: app/com.calibre_ebook.calibre/x86_64/stable
Arch: x86_64
Branch: stable
Version: 5.23.0
License: GPL-3.0
Origin: flathub
Collection: org.flathub.Stable
Installation: system
Installed: 360.9 MB
Runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/20.08
Sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/20.08
Commit: 13464e660f35716a725261af4b45d3abc199a3ce52ebdd9ee887c7ae623b5873
Parent: 4f7f3b603f31cc781caf8260f887118a1bb466748891c9e122826728e25d3eed
Subject: Update calibre-5.22.1-x86_64.txz to 5.23.0 (9184a3f3)
Date: 2021-07-11 19:56:21 +0000
nicholas@gondor:~$
nicholas@gondor:~$ flatpak --version
Flatpak 1.8.2
nicholas@gondor:~$
nicholas@gondor:~$ man calibre
No manual entry for calibre
nicholas@gondor:~$
The search results I see are for how to use flatpak
itself, which is only indirectly the question. No doubt the man
pages are on the system itself.
calibre
doesn't have man pages, if you've installed calibre v5.23.0 from their web page at https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux. This is the recommended place to get the latest version of calibre.
Note: The flatpak version v5.23.0 from https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.calibre_ebook.calibre doesn't appear to have man pages either.
Note: At the https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux web page, they indicate "Please do not use your distribution provided calibre package, as those are often buggy/outdated. Instead use the Binary install described below...".
If however, you've installed the older version of calibre v5.11.0 from the Ubuntu repos, or the Software
app, it may in fact have man pages. Not recommended.
Start calibre
. Click the HELP icon, or go to https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/ to view the calibre User Manual.