Re: Where are man pages?
Re: Where are man pages?
- Subject: Re: Where are man pages?
- From: Lee Cheng Siang <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:28:07 +0100
Le 26 nov. 03, ` 06:56, Martin Costabel a icrit :
Justin Walker wrote:
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would you mind explaining to Lee how he gets manpath to find the man
pages in /usr/local/qt/doc/man, which was in his MANPATH?
I think I did that, implicitly at least. MANPATH is the problem
(unless he's messed with /etc/manpath.conf, which isn't likely).
'manpath' will defer to that environment variable if it's set.
Otherwise, it's driven by the conf file.
Once MANPATH is 'unset', 'manpath' will happily do its thing.
Just for the record: What is quite clear from Lee's message is what
actually happened to him:
^^^^^^^^^
It is?
He must have installed some third-party software that was unaware of
the manpath mechanism and put some line, most likely something
equivalent to
Guilty as charged. I installed Qt for Macs.
You and I know how to fix /etc/manpath.config in such a way that it
searches in /usr/local/qt/doc/man, too. But what I maintain is that it
is much more difficult to explain to some newcomer (newbie user or
darwin-unsavvy third party software installer) how to edit
/etc/manpath.config correctly than how to add a component to MANPATH.
I'm not actually new to Unix environment (I still use vi for
programming under Mac OS X and LaTeXing), but I'm just a lazy dude. I
usualy don't bother reading about Unix settings due to an efficient sys
admin, he was like a walking Unix Bible... Now I learnt my lessons....
Thank you all for your help and advices.
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