diff --git a/cmake/CMakeLists.txt b/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
index fe904938a34e4f6daaf0a208d74a79b939cba1f0..ac0d77da758ec48cafb82142b09c51d4db2e9261 100644
--- a/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cmake/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1063,6 +1063,7 @@ if(BUILD_EXE)
   
   set_target_properties(lmp PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME lmp${LAMMPS_MACHINE})
   install(TARGETS lmp DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR})
+  install(FILES ${LAMMPS_DOC_DIR}/lammps.1 DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR}/man1 RENAME lmp${LAMMPS_MACHINE}.1)
   if(ENABLE_TESTING)
     add_test(ShowHelp lmp${LAMMPS_MACHINE} -help)
   endif()
diff --git a/doc/lammps.1 b/doc/lammps.1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d49650bfaad03678902a67c1937db7264f758004
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/lammps.1
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+.TH LAMMPS "2018-08-22"
+.SH NAME
+.B LAMMPS
+\- Molecular Dynamics Simulator.
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B lmp 
+-in in.file
+
+or
+
+mpirun \-np 2 
+.B lmp 
+-in in.file
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B LAMMPS 
+LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale 
+Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. LAMMPS has potentials for soft 
+materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, 
+semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to 
+model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the 
+atomic, meso, or continuum scale.
+
+See http://lammps.sandia.gov/ for documentation.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+See https://lammps.sandia.gov/doc/Run_options.html for details on
+command-line options.
+
+.SH COPYRIGHT 
+© 2003--2018 Sandia Corporation
+
+This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
+Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.