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I have read the Wikipedia man page, this StackExchange page, and the man section of Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th edition, page 16, but they don't seem to explain how to use man to, as man ldd says:

...(see ld.so(8))

These commands fail:

man 8 ld      # No manual entry for ld in section 8
man 8 ld.so   # No manual entry for ld.so in section 8
man ld.so(8)  # -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Which command displays the man page for ld.so(8)?

Details:

$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)

$ yum list installed man-pages
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Error: No matching Packages to list
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This would be the correct command

# man 8 ld.so

but your system does not seem to have installed the manual.

# sudo yum install man-pages

should do the trick, since

# rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man8/ld.so.8.gz
man-pages-3.53-5.el7.noarch

I will check it (on CentOS 7, too):

# man 8 ld.so | wc
241    1997   15690

What else could go wrong?

Man section 8 not searched: man searches the manual sections given in the MANSECT environment variable, if that is set. If it does not contain 8 then section 8 of the manual pages will be ignored. Unset the variable and try again.

Repository faulty You could download from here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/ and install by hand and/or check your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file.

Ned64
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  • If you still have problems check your environment variables for a variable called MANSECT and unset the variable, then test again. – Ned64 Aug 29 '19 at 15:30