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I've installed Ansible on macOS 13.1 (Ventura) with Homebrew. After updating $PATH to include /opt/homebrew/bin so I can execute ansible commands. However, the man pages for Ansible (man ansible, man ansible-galaxy, etc.) do not work. The ansible man pages when installed with Homebrew are located at:
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/7.1.0/share/man/man1
How can I have the man command on macOS reference these pages?
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Even though I had eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)" in ~/.zprofile and $MANPATH was /opt/homebrew/share/man::, I'm assuming there was some symlinking problems as I noticed after brew uninstall ansible that ansible was still present in /opt/homebrew/bin/ and the ansible command was still symlinked to it.
After doing rm /opt/homebrew/bin/ansible* and brew install ansible, ansible man pages are now working.
answered 4 hours ago
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The variable from which man works out where to look is MANPATH
From the bree manual page https://docs.brew.sh/Manpage#shellenv and your comment on updating PATH I think you have not fully followed the install instructions
Consider adding evaluation of this command’s output to your dotfiles (e.g. ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, or ~/.zprofile) with: eval “$(brew shellenv)”
Typing brew shellenv will show the updates needed for PATH MANPATH etc if you want to do it manually.
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