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? email stutz@dsl.org Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Stutz; this information is <http://dsl.org/m/> free and may be reproduced under GNU GPL, and as long as this sentence remains; it comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY; for details see <http://dsl.org/copyleft/>. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .