I have downloaded node.js tarball from its website, and now I would like install the manpage that comes with it so that I can view it by typing:
man nodejs
How can I do this?
It's not man nodejs, but man 1 node. And it will be there by default.
It will be installed for you with the regular installation method (e.g. sudo make install) as the tools/install.py called from the Makefile will take care of it:
if 'freebsd' in sys.platform or 'openbsd' in sys.platform:
action(['doc/node.1'], 'man/man1/')
else:
action(['doc/node.1'], 'share/man/man1/')
In other words, it installs node.1 for you in /usr/share/man/man1/.
To read the manpage directly from the source, you can do:
man /path/to/nodejssource/doc/node.1
