On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:38:30PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:23:42PM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote: > > Should the command apropos work 'out of the box'? > > I've recently done a fresh install of woody and get no hits when searching > > with apropos, even though the relevant man pages exist: > > > > # apropos ls > > ls: nothing appropriate. > > # apropos apt-get > > apt-get: nothing appropriate. > > # apropos lynx > > lynx: nothing appropriate. > > # apropos bash > > bash: nothing appropriate. > > > > -Lars > > I think this is a bug against manpages. Same thing here.
Nope, the poster was right. Since I shut off my machine at night, and don't like anacron, cron never runs. I just ran /etc/cron.daily/man-db as root, and it built the database and apropos works. It still might be worth a bug; the postinst only builds the database on fresh installs if man-db is not installed setuid. I don't understand that; seems like it needs a database. (Copying [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
