After upgrade to 16.04 I hit the issue with colors of some sections in man pages e.g. color of bold is black and when I read man pages in terminal with black background there is no possibility to see those sections(as their color is black too).
My TERM env is set to xterm-256color. How I can change color for bold text in man pages?
man uses a pager to show its contents, like less, more or most. Ubuntus default pager is less, but you can configure that in the alternatives system. Additionally, you can tell to use another pager on a case by case basis with the -P switch
man -P more ls
or by setting the PAGER or MANPAGER environment variables
export MANPAGER=more
more ls
So to solve your color problem, you can either choose a pager whose default color settings suit you better, or you can look into adapting the color settings of pager you want to use. For example, you can use a bunch of environment variables and termcap to configure the use of color in less.
