The apt
package which contain apt-get
, also contains the manpage for apt-get
(it even contains it in 7 languages), so if you have apt-get
installed, you really should have the manpage. If you don't you've messed up your system in a way beyond what any packaging system can help you with.
Similar can be said for mkdir
in the coreutils
package, and for ping
in iputils-ping
.
But configuring APT to not install recommends (which I also always do, and believe to be a good thing), will mean that you don't get manpages of any program where the Debian developer making the package has chosen not to include it in the package, but in a package that is only a recommandation. I guess there's a lot of options, but some number of programs have manpages in the manpages
package.
man apt-get
linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get or manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/apt.8.html ...man mkdir
(1) man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/mkdir.1.html , etc. etc.manpages.debian.org
.