"man" can't find man page after installing Crunch Wordlist Generator on Fedora 25

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[root@unknowna08cfd77f899 crunch-3.6]# ls
charset.lst  COPYING  crunch  crunch.1  crunch.c  Makefile                unicode_test.lst
[root@unknowna08cfd77f899 crunch-3.6]# make
make: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
[root@unknowna08cfd77f899 crunch-3.6]# man crunch
No manual entry for crunch

Any suggestions would be great because I am stuck in my tutorial. Why is there no manual file?

... Or read on-line http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/crunch.1.html ... I.e. almost every man page can be found with key word = man [app name] — Knud Larsen, May 12 '17 at 10:36
Isn't this missing a `sudo make install`? I don't think you've actually installed it quite yet. Just compiled. — Benjamin W., May 12 '17 at 14:30
Thank you very much, can't believe I forgot to make install lol — Evan Anderson, May 13 '17 at 17:23

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 12 '17 at 07:27

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If you want to open locally built manual page that is not in the common path, you should use the ./ prefix, such as

man ./crunch.1

answered May 12 '17 at 07:27

Jakuje

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '17 at 15:27

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Resolved in comment:

Isn't this missing a sudo make install?
I don't think you've actually installed it quite yet. Just compiled. – Benjamin W.

answered May 15 '17 at 15:27

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"man" can't find man page after installing Crunch Wordlist Generator on Fedora 25

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