Re: man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.
This is a little off-topic, but related to man-pages, too.
My problem is that - when running "man -a" as I always do - I often
get to see man pages multiple times. See this as an example:
~>man -w rename
/usr/man/man2/rename.2.gz /var/catman/cat2/rename.2.gz
/usr/man/man3/rename.3tcl.gz /var/catman/cat3/rename.3tcl.gz
/usr/man/man3/rename.3tcl.gz /var/catman/cat3/rename.3tcl.gz
/usr/man/man3/rename.3tcl.gz /var/catman/cat3/rename.3tcl.gz
I don't know when this started to happen, and I have no idea
what has gone wrong. For example, I never anything in manpath.config
A trimmed down output of "dpkg -l '*man*'" is here:
pn man <none> (no description available)
un man-aeb <none> (no description available)
un man-browser <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.3.10-38 Display the on-line manual.
ii manpages 1.15-4 Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 manpages
pn manpages-de <none> (no description available)
pn manpages-es <none> (no description available)
pn manpages-fr <none> (no description available)
pn manpages-it <none> (no description available)
Hm, now this is funny, since I do have (some) german manpages.
Oh, boy, this confuses me. HELP! :-)
Maybe, the contents (without comments) of manpath.config will help:
# man_db.config
MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/man
MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/X11R6/man
MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/local/man
MANPATH_MAP /bin /usr/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin /usr/man
MANPATH_MAP /sbin /usr/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/sbin /usr/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin/X11 /usr/local/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/games /usr/man
MANDB_MAP /usr/man/de_DE /var/catman/de_DE
MANDB_MAP /usr/man/it_IT /var/catman/it_IT
MANDB_MAP /usr/man /var/catman
MANDB_MAP /usr/local/man /var/catman/local
MANDB_MAP /usr/X11R6/man /var/catman/X11R6
Thanks a lot in advance,
Andy.
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Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany
E-Mail: spiegl@Appl-Math.TU-Muenchen.de OR: Andy.Spiegl@WriteMe.com
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