You need to run "makewhatis" to create the whatis database. A cron job to
do this occasionally should have been installed automatically, but it
doesn't do it right away.
Michael
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Joe Cooper wrote:
> I've recently installed RH5.0 and mostly things are working really well,
> though I have just discovered an annoying problem.
>
> man -k and apropos always return "command: nothing appropriate" where
> 'command' is the command or search term I wanted information on. It
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