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I have installed the WSL version of Debian and changed the default shell to zsh. Now I cant find the man pages. the ZSH shell doesn't recognize any command related to the man pages.

I've tried 

man-db
man

and always get this

zsh: command not found: man-db

How can I get the manpages under WSL Debian using ZSH?

I thought that maybe the manpages are not automatically installed with the WSL package, even though this would be odd.

My other guess is that it has to do with using oh-my-zsh.

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as WSL as well and there is no such problem. When I type

man man

I get the man help pages.

Thank you in advance

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  • Could you show us what command you're issuing and what the response is? Commented May 9, 2020 at 10:41
  • man-db is a package, man is a command. Do you get command not found when using man as well? Could you please add the output of print -rC1 -- $path (from your zsh shell)? Are you setting $path or $PATH in your shell's startup files (typically ~/.zshenv, ~/.zprofile or ~/.zshrc)? Commented May 9, 2020 at 11:22

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You need to install the man-db package, it's missing in WSL.

Update the package index and install the package with apt:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install man-db
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