Re: I broke 'whatis'. How do I fix it?
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997 12:23:36 +0000, Christian Hudon wrote:
>On Jul 5, Dave Cinege wrote
>> I don't know how the hell I did it, but I broke whatis. Whereis works.
>> But whatis always returns "Nothing appropriate".
>>
>> Whatis works on all my other machines. This machine is a clean 1.3.0
>> install, but I have installed quite a bit of extra junk.
>
>Try doing "mandb -c" to rebuild the database used by man and whatis. If
Nope.
>that doesn't work, you might want to try reinstalling the mandb package.
By itself didn't do it either. I ran 'mandb -c' again after the reinstall
and that fixed it. Thanks.
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