Re: "man" crashes

[Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu>]

On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 
> dwarf>On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> dwarf>
> dwarf>> Seems that the man package cannot cope with some screwups of the dpkg
> dwarf>> updates.
> dwarf>> 
> dwarf>Sounds like you upgraded to an experimental version of dpkg. Which version
> dwarf>do you have? I'm running 1.3.6 with none of these problems.
> 1.3.9 as of today.
> 
> Any way to fix those problems?
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I would suggest removing any of the files that it lists as
problems, then remove and reinstall the manpages package, and
possibly the actual "man" utility as well.


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