Re: mkwhatis?
> Hi,
>
> > > How do i generate a whatis database in Debian Linux?
>
> I dont have the whole Mail with the question, but in Debian you dontneed to
> run mkwhatis. mandb is building its own database for apropos and whatis
> everytime new pages are detected. Of course yu can rerun mandb to rebuild
> this index.
>
> Greetings
> Bernd
>
You don't need mkwhatis for Debian's man implementation, but TkMan complains
about not having a 'whatis' database. Just to make it stop complaining, I put
that script together.
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