Why are some man pages missing?

[Gene_S]

@hcvv

I am on LEAP15.2, but I doubt there is much difference with Tumbleweed.

I guess we are missing some information here about the background of your actions.

To begin with, why are you installing the package man-pages? It is normally installed during system installation. I never did such an installation outside of the system installation, nor did I ever direct call mandb, I all leave those actions to the normal installation procedures (if ever needed). Nevertheless I never had and any missing man pages. And

man ln

works here.
Thus my suspicion that you did something that initiated you to do that explicit installation of man-pages in the first place.

When I built this system, I started from a minimal icewm installation. Apparently, man-pages and coreutils-doc are not part of that installation. Also, apparently the man pages are in different packages in TW and LEAP as I pointed out in my previous post.

Gene