No man on Debian 10

The default install of Debian 10 does not have man installed by default. Attempting to view a man page results in the following error:

jemurray@shell:/usr/bin$ man basename
-bash: man: command not found

In the 20+ years I have used Linux, I have never found a distribution that didn’t have man installed, but appears so:

jemurray@shell:/usr/bin$ which man
jemurray@shell:/usr/bin$

jemurray@shell:/usr/bin$ /usr/bin/man
-bash: /usr/bin/man: No such file or directory

jemurray@shell:/usr/bin$ /bin/man
-bash: /bin/man: No such file or directory

jemurray@shell:/usr/bin$ whereis man
man: /usr/local/man /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man7/man.7.gz

Install man:

jemurray@shell:~$ sudo apt install man-db

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  groff-base libpipeline1 libuchardet0
Suggested packages:
  groff
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  groff-base libpipeline1 libuchardet0 man-db
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 6,700 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 groff-base amd64 1.22.4-3 [916 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 libpipeline1 amd64 1.5.1-2 [31.2 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 man-db amd64 2.8.5-2 [1,274 kB]
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Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package libuchardet0:amd64.
(Reading database ... 79513 files and directories currently installed.)
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Preparing to unpack .../man-db_2.8.5-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
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Setting up libuchardet0:amd64 (0.0.6-3) ...
Setting up groff-base (1.22.4-3) ...
Setting up man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
Building database of manual pages ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/man-db.timer → /lib/systemd/system/man-db.timer.
man-db.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
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Validate man is installed:

jemurray@shell:~$ which man
/usr/bin/man

It works now:

jemurray@mbp-2019:~ $ man basename | head

BASENAME(1)               BSD General Commands Manual              BASENAME(1)

NAME
     basename, dirname -- return filename or directory portion of pathname