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Re: Manpage problems ?




Dear Scurvy Newbie

This is obviously a date problem. Run mandb -c man directories to
index all manpage and in the future make sure newly intalled manpage
date are later then the indexes or better yet go back to dos an never
darken this discussion group again you hapless scoundrel.
    




On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> My manpages seemed to be working but I recently installed a deb package  
> with dpkg, the man pages were installed in the right place but 
> the command  "man command"  informs me that, that particular  man page is not
> available. It seems that only an index is being used but there is no
> default man directory search to determine if that man page exists. I set
> the $MANPATH but it makes no difference. Other man pages are called up with
> "man command", if that manpage has never been called by man a file is
> created in the catman directories. 
> 
>                                                     Any help appreciated
>                                                     Christopher Mosley     
> 
> 
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