Re: man missing !

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson) wrote:
>franck routier <f.routier@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>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
>
>Could you tell me what 'ls -l /usr/bin/man' and 'ls -l
>/usr/bin/man-wrapper' return, please? Also, what architecture are you
>running (i386, alpha, sparc, ...)? I haven't heard of this happening
>before.

I've just looked at the packages for all architectures in the archive,
and they all look fine (the man -> man-wrapper symlink is sitting
happily in the .deb). Did you get any errors while installing the
package?

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]