apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
Hello,
when looking for manpages with apropos I always get an error message and
the wildcard search fails for X related (and some other) man pages.
(I use Debian 1.1.4)
Look at this:
---- BEGIN pretty good example ----
rudi:~$ apropos -w XDraw*
apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory
XDraw*: nothing appropriate.
rudi:~$ apropos XDrawPoint
XDrawPoint (3x) - draw points and points structure
apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory
----- END pretty good example -----
How do I create the fallback whatis database? Do I need it?
Heiko
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