Yeah, the man command itself is not in your path. was it working before? $ whereis man
and add that to your path. Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: franck routier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > franck routier > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:53 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: man missing ! > > > hello, > > for a few days, when I type 'man xxx', I get the following > error message : > > bash: man: command not found > > However, I have installed manpages and man-db packages : > > socrate:/home/alci# dpkg -s man-db > Package: man-db > Status: install ok installed > Priority: important > Section: doc > Installed-Size: 716 > Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Version: 2.3.17-3.2 > Replaces: man, nlsutils > Provides: man, man-browser > Depends: groff (>> 1.15-3.ja.3) | jgroff (>> 1.15), libc6 (>= > 2.2.1-2), > libdb2 > Suggests: bsdmainutils > Conflicts: man, suidmanager (<< 0.50) > Conffiles: > /etc/cron.daily/man-db cb64d563929901997edfe798a3dca2ee > /etc/cron.weekly/man-db 85baf175ee93f0677091328ac1a59e7c > Description: Display the on-line manual. > This package provides the man command. This utility is the primary > way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). > Other utilities > provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the > manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual > page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and > zsoelim. This package uses the groff suite of programs to format and > display the manual pages. > > Is there any explanation to this ? > > Thanks in advance, > Franck > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
