> > Hi, > > I am using Debian 1.3 since six months and am happy with the distribution. > I have a couple of problems for which I need some help: > > 1. I have installed offix-files for which there is manpage files.1x.gz in > /usr/X11R6/man/man1. But 'man files' says 'No manual entry...' I also get > a message that the database is 8days old. How do I update the database so > that the above problem does not occur again? > > 2. I recently installed MuPAD. To access its manuals, I added the > following line to /etc/profile > > MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/MuPAD/share/man > > But this somehow removes the usual man directories from the search path. > How do I add new directories to the MANPATH without trashing the earlier > ones in my own .bash_profile?
MANPATH has no value by default. To include the default search path, and my own man directory, I use MANPATH=$(manpath 2>/dev/null):$HOME/man export MANPATH in my .bash_profile. So try man manpath :) Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
