I am trying to understand how man works. I have a mixed slink/potato
system. It seems to me that potato puts the manpages in /usr/share/man. So
I added /usr/share/man in /etc/manpath.conf and also in ~/.bash_profile
(the latter apparently causes "man" to ignore /etc/manpath.conf).
After installing a few potato packages the manpages of some of them are
not available although they are there.
For example
dir /usr/share/man/man1
addr2line.1.gz gcc.1.gz localedef.1.gz
ar.1.gz gcov.1.gz nlmconv.1.gz
as.1.gz getent.1.gz nm.1.gz
c++.1.gz glib-config.1.gz nodelist2lbdb.1.gz
c++filt.1.gz gprof.1.gz noweb2lyx.1.gz
c89.1.gz gtk-config.1.gz objcopy.1.gz
cdbdump.1.gz iconv.1.gz objdump.1.gz
cdbget.1.gz lbdb-fetchaddr.1.gz ranlib.1.gz
cdbmake.1.gz lbdbq.1.gz reLyX.1.gz
cdbstats.1.gz ld.1.gz readelf.1.gz
cdbtest.1.gz ldd.1.gz size.1.gz
cpp.1.gz less.1.gz strings.1.gz
dviprint.1.gz lessecho.1.gz strip.1.gz
egcc.1.gz lessfile.1.gz tzconfig.1.gz
fluid.1.gz lesskey.1.gz tzselect.1.gz
g++.1.gz lesspipe.1.gz zdump.1.gz
gasp.1.gz locale.1.gz
jhspies-09:37:56-~$man dviprint
No manual entry for dviprint
$MANPATH set, ignoring /etc/manpath.config
:/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/share/man
I can type man cpp, man fluid and so on and it works. But dviprint and
several other just give the message "No manual antry for **".
How can I fix that.
Regards.
Johann
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