Re: apropos fails, makewhatis doesn't exist
Carl Fink wrote:
>
> I'm sending this from a Debian 2.0 system (i386). Currently I'm
> having only one irritating problem: apropos fails. Well, it's
> installed, and it runs, but it replies to *any* query with "Nothing
> appropriate", even "apropos bash" or "apropos ls".
I had this same problem a while ago. I traced it to naughty man-pages
in the wine-doc package that contained spaces in their names, thus
making man-db barf. The problem can be solved (temporarily) by finding
all such man pages and deleting/re-naming them, or just by removing the
offending package altogether.
I filed a bug report on this some time ago, but I'm not sure is anything
has happened with it.
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