Re: can't get man pages to work

["Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com>]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 09:39:13AM -0500, Russell Hires wrote:
> > > I just installed woody on an iMac (rev a or b, I can't remember right
> > > now)...my man pages install is broken! I've removed it, reinstalled it,
> > > purged it and reinstalled. Still, I get an error that /usr/bin/pager
> > > cannot be found.

I don't think /usr/bin/pager is installed by man-db. It is a symlink to
/etc/alternatives/pager. Does 

ln -s /etc/alternatives/pager /usr/bin/pager 

solve the problem?

The update-alternatives program belongs to dpkg, which is installed as 
part of the base system. Some of the other symlinks that might be present
are:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Feb 24 21:51 awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Feb 24 22:24 b2m -> /etc/alternatives/b2m
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Feb 24 22:22 c++ -> /etc/alternatives/c++
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Feb 24 22:22 cc -> /etc/alternatives/cc
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Feb 24 22:24 ctags -> /etc/alternatives/ctags
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           24 Feb 24 21:52 editor -> /etc/alternatives/editor
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Feb 24 22:24 etags -> /etc/alternatives/etags
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Feb 24 21:53 ex -> /etc/alternatives/ex
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Feb 24 22:19 ftp -> /etc/alternatives/ftp
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           27 Feb 24 22:25 gconftool -> /etc/alternatives/gconftool
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Feb 24 22:23 gs -> /etc/alternatives/gs
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           29 Feb 24 21:52 infobrowser -> /etc/alternatives/infobrowser
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           25 Mar  9 13:10 mozilla -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           29 Mar  9 13:10 mozilla-bin -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-bin
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Feb 24 21:51 nawk -> /etc/alternatives/nawk
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           27 Feb 24 22:23 oxdvi.bin -> /etc/alternatives/oxdvi.bin
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Feb 24 21:52 pager -> /etc/alternatives/pager
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Feb 24 22:22 rcp -> /etc/alternatives/rcp
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           29 Feb 24 22:24 rcs-checkin -> /etc/alternatives/rcs-checkin
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           24 Feb 24 22:22 rlogin -> /etc/alternatives/rlogin
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Feb 24 22:22 rsh -> /etc/alternatives/rsh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Feb 24 22:26 talk -> /etc/alternatives/talk
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Mar  1 20:42 tclsh -> /etc/alternatives/tclsh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           24 Feb 24 21:53 telnet -> /etc/alternatives/telnet
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Feb 24 21:53 vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Feb 24 21:53 view -> /etc/alternatives/view
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Feb 24 21:52 w -> /etc/alternatives/w
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Mar  1 20:42 wish -> /etc/alternatives/wish
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           35 Feb 24 22:25 x-session-manager -> /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           37 Feb 24 22:25 x-terminal-emulator -> /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           34 Mar  2 17:51 x-window-manager -> /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           26 Feb 24 22:23 xdvi.bin -> /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           31 Mar  7 21:01 xmlproc_parse -> /etc/alternatives/xmlproc_parse
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           29 Mar  7 21:01 xmlproc_val -> /etc/alternatives/xmlproc_val
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Feb 24 22:19 yacc -> /etc/alternatives/yacc

Do you see some of those?

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