On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > 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.
> jhspies-09:37:56-~$man dviprint > No manual entry for dviprint I have the exact same problem. I just installed the lastest man-db from frozen. man-db ran for a few minutes afterwards, but the problem is still there. I have not fiddled with the conf at all. ...RickM...
