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 ### Manpages
 
 For man pages to work you need [man-db](http://man-db.nongnu.org/) as your `man` provider, then issue `man ghc`. Manpages only work for the currently set ghc.
+`MANPATH` may be required to be unset.
 
 ## Design goals