Re: man

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Robert Waldner wrote:

 : On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:01:55 +1030, John Pearson writes:
 : >On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 09:55:44PM +0100, Marco Giardini wrote
 : >> why some man pages are in /usr/share/man instead of /usr/man?
 : >> how do i read that man pages?
 : >> =
 : 
 : >
 : >Debian 2.1 ('slink') puts its man pages in /usr/man, and =
 : 
 : >Debian 2.2 ('potato') puts its man pages in /usr/share/man.
 : 
 : ouch. that means my rather practical solution to this "problem", =
 : 
 : simply moving /usr/share/man/* to /usr/man and symlinking
 : /usr/share/man to /usr/man was a bad idea...it works, though,
 : but I don=B4t assume there=B4s a rather painless way to reverse this?

Probably not unless you reinstall any packages with manpages :)

Take a peek at /etc/manpath.config for a better fix

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