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Re: no man pages... ??



On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:55:10PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> My man pages have all disappeared...
> 
> I did "man netstat" to look something up, and I got nothing...
> I mean, no error, but it was an empty page.
> 
> I tried
> man ls
> man cd
> man aptitude
> etc., etc...
> 
> same thing...no man pages...
> I've never, ever, in over a decade of using gnu/linux, ever lost my man
> pages.  Man pages are my friend. They've always been there for me.
> I'm lost without them...
> 
> This is on squeeze, amd64, updated this morning.
> The machine ran lenny for two years before squeeze. 
> I've always had man pages on here.
> 
> Where have they gone?
> 
> I reinstalled manpages, even, and still, no joy.
> Why have my man pages abandoned me?
> I'm so lost without them...
> 
> Please help.

To clarify one thing, the man pages really haven't disappeared.
They're all in /usr/share/man1 ../man2, etc.
But
man $someprogram
gives me nothing.

./tony
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