Were are man pages for 3rd party tools installed in Catalina?

I have a product, SoftRAID, which installs a command line tool with its corresponding man page for it.


With Catalina, I can no longer copy the man page to /usr/share/man/man1 as I get a "Read-only file system" error. I have tried copying the man page to /Library/Apple/usr/share/man/man1/ but this also produces an error.


The copy operations are being performed with an executable which is running setuid root (i.e. with root privileges).


Thanks,


Tim

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It was never good practice to install 3rd party software in /usr. 3rd party apps should install into their own directories or /usr/local. The Linux culture is to use package managers to install everything into /usr, but that's Linux.

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What I’d recommend is 

/usr/local/share/man/
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