Where do I find the zsh manual in Ubuntu versions later than 12.04?

Asked Oct 09 '14 at 10:57

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At the moment I am learning zsh based on recommendations from friends and colleagues. To my surprise I was unable to find the man page for zsh and a man page named zshmisc which apparently was included in earlier versions of the zsh package on Ubuntu (e.g. zshmisc for Precise Pangolin).

Where can I find the documentation for zsh on my system after installing zsh?

Packages zsh-doc and zsh-lovers are installed. But only the latter even provides a man page.

NB: I hope to evade the ugly and hard-to-use concoction that the info system is (I don't even have it installed, nor did zsh-doc require it) - so man pages are preferred in an answer.

edited Oct 09 '14 at 11:04

asked Oct 09 '14 at 10:57

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possible duplicate of zsh man page documentation missing in packages? – Jan Oct 09 '14 at 11:31
The zsh manpages have been missing for some time in the Ubuntu packages. On Ubuntu 14.04 the manpages are again insalled with the zsh-common package (at least since package version 5.0.5-4ubuntu1), which is a dependency of the zsh package. (14.04 is also the only version newer than 12.04 that is still supported, by Canonical and this site) – Adaephon Oct 09 '14 at 13:29
The latest package on 14.04 is 5.0.2-3ubuntu6, though. And that doesn't contain the man pages. – 0xC0000022L Oct 09 '14 at 13:33
You can get 5.0.5-4ubuntu1 from trusty-backports. – Adaephon Oct 13 '14 at 09:01

Where do I find the zsh manual in Ubuntu versions later than 12.04?

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