Re: Man problems
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using Debian 1.3 since six months and am happy with the distribution.
> I have a couple of problems for which I need some help:
>
> 1. I have installed offix-files for which there is manpage files.1x.gz in
> /usr/X11R6/man/man1. But 'man files' says 'No manual entry...' I also get
> a message that the database is 8days old. How do I update the database so
> that the above problem does not occur again?
>
> 2. I recently installed MuPAD. To access its manuals, I added the
> following line to /etc/profile
>
> MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/MuPAD/share/man
>
> But this somehow removes the usual man directories from the search path.
> How do I add new directories to the MANPATH without trashing the earlier
> ones in my own .bash_profile?
MANPATH has no value by default. To include the default search path,
and my own man directory, I use
MANPATH=$(manpath 2>/dev/null):$HOME/man
export MANPATH
in my .bash_profile. So try man manpath :)
Eric Meijer
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