Here is my citations/research:

To install a single man page: http://askubuntu.com/questions/244809/how-do-i-manually-install-a-man-page

To install multiple manpages: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/79028/debian-install-missing-man-pages

Here is my article:

If your server came without man/man pages installed most likely its because it doesnt have the capacity to hold all of that. Either Way man pages are pretty slow.

apt-get update
apt-get install man
apt-get install manpages
apt-get install manpages-dev

To get missing man pages reinstall the app (current version app):

WARNING IF THIS BREAKS YOUR SYSTEM DONT YELL AT ME (OR SUE ME), MAKE A BACKUP FIRST

Lists all installed packages with their current version number:

dpkg -l | grep '^ii ' | sed 's/ */\t/g' |cut -f 2,3 | sed 's/\t/=/'

EX OUTPUT:

ttf-bitstream-vera=1.10-8
tzdata=2014j-0wheezy1
ucf=3.0025+nmu3
udev=175-7.2

Downloads all of the current versions:

dpkg -l | grep '^ii ' | sed 's/ */\t/g' |cut -f 2,3 | sed 's/\t/=/' | xargs apt-get install --reinstall -y --ignore-missing

The problem with above command is that it lists all packages in one single long “apt-get install” command. Apt-get tends to fail on really long commands.

So the above command would run this:

apt-get install --reinstall -y --ignore-missing ttf-bitstream-vera=1.10-8 tzdata=2014j-0wheezy1 ucf=3.0025+nmu3 udev=175-7.2

Imagine if you had 400 packages to install. That would break apt-gets brain!

So it might be better to install each package individually

PKGS=$(dpkg -l | grep '^ii ' | sed 's/ */\t/g' |cut -f 2,3 | sed 's/\t/=/'); TOTAL=$(echo $PKGS | wc -w); NN=0; for i in $PKGS; do NN=$((NN+1)); echo ===${NN}/${TOTAL}: INSTALLING $i===; apt-get install --reinstall -y --ignore-missing "${i}"; done;

SIDENOTE:

To install a specific version of a package:

apt-get install --reinstall <package>=<version>

To Re-install a specific version of a package:

apt-get install --reinstall <package>=<version>

Whats ignore-missing for: –ignore-missing – this command is run as ‘best effort’ – I don’t want the updating to stop because some packages are not available to reinstall (those will stay unmodified)