Can anybody enlighten me on how to install some/any/all man pages for some/any/all applications?
You can install them by copying them into the directories in /usr/share/man and then running "makewhatis". The easiest way to find them is to look in the individual .rpms with mc; if you don't know what mc is you should install it and learn how to use it. Really. Really. Really.
Other filebrowsers may allow you to open .rpm's in the same way: as mini virtual filesytems whose contents you can browse and copy out files.
Also look at and read /etc/man.config. You are obviously entering a learing curve and you might as well start learning or go back to windows. Again, here's some very important advice: INSTALL MC (it comes with fedora). LEARN HOW IT WORKS. Read the man page. Run it in color in an X terminal so you don't get bored. Browse your fedora CD or whatever (all the rpms are in one directory) and just hit enter to view the contents of each rpm. Enter again on "CONTENTS.cpio" and you can see all the files in the rpm organized in a tree as they would be installed, making it easy to figure out where to put the man pages when you find them. mc will save you a bunch of time all the time; the only reason it is not the first thing you see after XDM on all linux distros is that it doesn't have a useful GUI. And people need choices.
