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Re: man-db 69c problem



On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 11:12:43AM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Yesterday I upgraded man-db on my potato system to man-db 69c.  The
> upgrade broke man so that man  could no longer find the man pages.  Is 
> there something else that I need to do?  Could my MANPATH be broken?
> In any case, the vanilla man-db install broke man page access for me.
> Is this a packaging bug?
> 
> In the meantime, I downgraded to slink's man-db.

if it asked you if you wanted to replace the old config with the new, you
could always ...

mv /etc/manpath.config /etc/manpath.config.dpkg-dist
mv /etc/manpath.config.dpkg-old /etc/manpath.config

If it didn't ask, well you could edit the new config by hand fixing the
/usr/share's to /usr's.

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