Follow this tutorial to add eye candy highlighting to man pages in Debian/Ubuntu based GNU/Linux distributions. For this we have to install a small program called "most". To install it type in terminal:

 sudo apt-get install most

Now set the pager used by man and try running man: 

 export MANPAGER="/usr/bin/most" 

If it does not work try "/usr/local/bin/most"

Then try it:

 man man 

The screenshots without and with "most" installed are given

 WITH MAN PAGE COLORING

Add the setting of MANPAGER to your shell ~./profile to make the setting available when you login.  For this type the following command in the terminal:

 sudo gedit ~/.profile 

This will open up .profile file. Then add the line export MANPAGER="/usr/bin/most" to it and save. Then you get the man page highlighting feature each time you login. Otherwise you have to type the export command each time to get the feature.

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