How to download the Official man pages from the manpages.Ubuntu.com for Offline viewing
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 calleddoccentral
. 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
You can use wget
to download the entire website. (if the server allows this) like
$wget \
--recursive \
--no-clobber \
--page-requisites \
--html-extension \
--convert-links \
--restrict-file-names=windows \
--domains website.org \
--no-parent \
Here is more details [wget
manpage]
Source: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/downloading-entire-web-site-wget
I found a solution here WebHTTrack, installed through Synaptic manager.
By which i was able to get the Man Pages as it is from the website .
though it went for more than 200 MB's , but got the job done.