Re: Where are man pages?
Re: Where are man pages?
- Subject: Re: Where are man pages?
- From: James SterlingIII <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:19:52 -0500
By any chance have you rebuilt your man pages ??
Try catman <ret>
This may take a few minutes.. Catman rebuilds and gets every man page it can
find .. If you have added new X applications with "different" locations you
will need to let catman know where the new man pages are
man catman to get more details :->
Just for grins.. I have run into this on several unix/linux sytems
Hope this helps
Jim Sterling
on 11/24/03 5:46 PM, Justin Walker at email@hidden wrote:
> On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 09:43 AM, Edward Thome wrote:
>
>> I think that the problem is that you need to set your environment. If
>> you type
>> echo $PATH
>> and
>> echo $MANPATH
>> in Terminal or in an xterm, I think you'll fink that they are fairly
>> barren. How to add things to your path and manpath depends upon
>> whether you are using bash or tcsh or ...
>
> From 10.2 on, I believe, the paths for man pages are determined by
> 'manpath' (see 'man' for details). You can override this by setting
> MANPATH, but generally, it's better to work with "manpath.conf".
>
>> If you type
>> man /bin/ls
>> then I think you'll get the man pages for ls. The problem is that
>> '/bin' is not in your path.
>
> Um... No, I don't think this will work. The "man" command won't know
> about "/bin/ls" no matter how you set things up. I think the problem
> is as addressed by other respondents.
>
> Regards,
>
> Justin
>
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