Bug#283472: man: something urls do not work - konqueror wants MANPATH although Debian use manpath
Package: konqueror
Version: 4:3.2.2-1
Severity: normal
Attempts to open in konqueror urls like:
man: bash
fail with the following message displayed in the konqueror page (I
back-translate to English from Polish so the exact phrase can be a bit
different):
KDE man browser error
No man page for bash. You can extend the search path
setting MANPATH variable before KDE is run.
The problem is that in current Debian configuration there is no
MANPATH variable, instead manpath program together with
/etc/manpath.config is used.
I am not sure what is the best way to solve the problem, but I can
imagine two ways:
- patch (debian-specifically) konqueror so it can make use of manpath
- change kde startup scripts so they generate MANPATH from manpath
(maybe not best, shells started from KDE will get MANPATH)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20-ck2
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL
Versions of packages konqueror depends on:
ii kcontrol 4:3.2.2-1 KDE Control Center
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.2.2-1 KDE I/O Slaves
ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.3-2 KDE core libraries
ii kdesktop 4:3.2.2-1 KDE Desktop
ii kfind 4:3.2.2-1 KDE File Find Utility
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-6 client library to control the FAM
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.2-2 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkonq4 4:3.2.2-1 Core libraries for KDE's file mana
ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libpng12-0 1.2.7-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-7 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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