Man Problems

[Jeff Schreiber <schreiber@process.com>]

    I seem to get a strange error when I view some manpages with a non-prived
    account.

    I notice that /var/catman is nowrite for group and world, and I assume
    that's the problem, but I'm assuming that I'm not actually supposed to
    change the permissions to something else....

    for example:

~> man ls
Reformatting ls(1), please wait...
man: can't create /var/catman/cat1/901: Permission denied

LS(1)                                                       LS(1)
[...]

~> su 
Password:
# man ls
Reformatting ls(1), please wait...

LS(1)                                                       LS(1)
[...]
#exit
~> man ls

LS(1)                                                       LS(1)
[...]

    Also... for some reason, I don't have an index either:
~> man -k list
list: nothing appropriate.

    I'm wondering if it is related to the problems that I have with man_db
    (it's _working_ but I don't know if it finished correctly)

# dpkg --configure --pending
Setting up man-db (2.3.10-38) ...
  Creating catman hierarchy as of /etc/manpath.config
[...]
  Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sb
in/chmanconfig line 38.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38.
dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:

                                        -Jeff

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