RE: man missing !
Yeah, the man command itself is not in your path. was it working before?
$ whereis man
and add that to your path.
Jason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: franck routier [mailto:alci@mecadu.org]On Behalf Of
> franck routier
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:53 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: man missing !
>
>
> hello,
>
> for a few days, when I type 'man xxx', I get the following
> error message :
>
> bash: man: command not found
>
> However, I have installed manpages and man-db packages :
>
> socrate:/home/alci# dpkg -s man-db
> Package: man-db
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: important
> Section: doc
> Installed-Size: 716
> Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
> Version: 2.3.17-3.2
> Replaces: man, nlsutils
> Provides: man, man-browser
> Depends: groff (>> 1.15-3.ja.3) | jgroff (>> 1.15), libc6 (>=
> 2.2.1-2),
> libdb2
> Suggests: bsdmainutils
> Conflicts: man, suidmanager (<< 0.50)
> Conffiles:
> /etc/cron.daily/man-db cb64d563929901997edfe798a3dca2ee
> /etc/cron.weekly/man-db 85baf175ee93f0677091328ac1a59e7c
> Description: Display the on-line manual.
> This package provides the man command. This utility is the primary
> way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages).
> Other utilities
> provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the
> manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual
> page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and
> zsoelim. This package uses the groff suite of programs to format and
> display the manual pages.
>
> Is there any explanation to this ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Franck
>
>
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