From c56025000b32603393c6ab7e642c148c76f25421 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: remyabel2 <94518122+remyabel2@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 07:46:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add info on man page installation (#6894)

---
 docs/installation.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index 7f9a1e820..f1d40530b 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -358,6 +358,19 @@ activating your virtual environment::
 
     pip install -U borgbackup  # or ... borgbackup[llfuse/pyfuse3]
 
+When doing manual pip installation, man pages are not automatically
+installed.  You can run these commands to install the man pages
+locally::
+
+    # get borg from github
+    git clone https://github.com/borgbackup/borg.git borg
+
+    # Install the files with proper permissions
+    install -D -m 0644 borg/docs/man/borg*.1* $HOME/.local/share/man/man1/borg.1
+
+    # Update the man page cache
+    mandb
+
 .. _git-installation:
 
 Using git