Re: Pre-release Woody 3.0: 'Man' & Gnome Terminal not working.
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 08:52:45AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> It's been missing on my system, too, since about when man-db last moved
> into testing (not saying it was man-db that did this, just that the time
> was the same.) That said, I just went with the older solution of
> defining the PAGER environment variable and exporting it in my shell
> .rc, which was the way I'd been raised to do this. I've declined to file
> a bug report on this because I want to be sure it goes to the right
> package (Maintainers are busy enough - if I can essentially track the
> problem down to a specific patch, hopefully that will save headaches all
> around.)
Can I guess that you have sawfish-pager installed? It used to clobber
/usr/bin/pager, although it's been fixed now.
> This solution above may leave a tad of confusion - the symlink needs to
> be restored to /etc/alternatives/pager for /usr/bin/pager, or you can
> update-alternatives till the cows come home and still get no pager.
Mea culpa. My tests weren't complete enough: update-alternatives seems
to restore the symlink if only one possible alternative is present, but
not otherwise.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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