Re: Getting man pages in color

[Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>]

On 28 Jul 2003 02:44:23 +0300
Micha Feigin <michf@math.tau.ac.il> wrote:

> How do I get man pages to show in color?
> used to have it on mandrake at one of the workplaces but never figured
> out how to enable it under debian.
> 
> thanx

As others have said, "most" is what you want. To install and configure:

 
apt-get install most

  THEN (AS ROOT) DO THIS:

root@sonic:~# update-alternatives --config pager

There are 4 programs which provide `pager'.

  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
      1        /bin/more
 +    2        /usr/bin/less
      3        /usr/bin/w3m
*     4        /usr/bin/most