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Where does one find the manpage of a flatpak application?

For example, I know that Thunderbird usually has a manpage. However, I have tried the following two commands to no avail.

[user ~]$ man thunderbird
No manual entry for thunderbird

[user ~]$ flatpak run --command="bash" org.mozilla.Thunderbird
[ org.mozilla.Thunderbird ~]$ man thunderbird
bash: man: command not found

Note: There is a similar question on askUbuntu, however, it is related to a specific software, and the answer pertains to that software only.

abrac
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    man pages are installed when you install an application (for default deb packages). Those pages will only exist in other formats (such as flatpak) IF they are created/packaged with the pages... ie. if the creator of the flatpak didn't package or allow for it; it won't work. Your man thunderbird example failed I suspect due to $PATH for the flatpak shell & is unrelated; and I don't see your connection with the other question which to me applies as it was generic (alas didn't apply to containerized packages). This is my opinion only. – guiverc Aug 21 '23 at 11:08

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Flatpaks were primarily developed for graphical user applications. As such, there does not appear to be standard provisions to integrate with the man system, so a flatpak typically will not install a local man page.

vanadium
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