Re: mandb, man, manpath question
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Johann Spies wrote:
> I am trying to understand how man works. I have a mixed slink/potato
> system. It seems to me that potato puts the manpages in /usr/share/man. So
> I added /usr/share/man in /etc/manpath.conf and also in ~/.bash_profile
> (the latter apparently causes "man" to ignore /etc/manpath.conf).
>
> After installing a few potato packages the manpages of some of them are
> not available although they are there.
> jhspies-09:37:56-~$man dviprint
> No manual entry for dviprint
I have the exact same problem. I just installed the lastest man-db from
frozen. man-db ran for a few minutes afterwards, but the problem is still
there. I have not fiddled with the conf at all.
...RickM...
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