On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes:
>   >Hello--
>   >
>   >It seems my apropos doesn't work; I've got Debian 1.3.1 and -- according to
>   >apropos -- nothing is ever appropriate. So I did an "apropos -d a" and got
> 
> Perhaps you need to run mandb to create the manual page index.

Yup, that did it. Shouldn't the man package automagically do this once
installed or via the dselect [C]onfigure option?


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