Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn thing: jwb@noodles:/var$ apropos ls ls: nothing appropriate. jwb@noodles:/var$ apropos apropos apropos: nothing appropriate. jwb@noodles:/var$ ls /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz jwb@noodles:/var$ mkwhatis bash: mkwhatis: command not found How do I get it to work? -jwb