My man pages are gone.. what happened?

BrianK · 03-08-2004, 05:47 PM

I don't have any man pages... well, if I type "man ls" I get "No manual entry for ls" What happened? I'm not sure when this started, but I know that man used to work. Is it a path issue or something like that?

This box is running RH 7.3 with the 2.4.20-27.7smp kernel.

Tinkster · 03-08-2004, 06:06 PM

There's several possibilities :)

Have a look at

echo $MANPATH
whereis ls

Cheers,
Tink

BrianK · 03-08-2004, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tinkster
There's several possibilities

Have a look at

echo $MANPATH
whereis ls

Cheers,
Tink

/usr/local/qt/doc/man

hmmm... is that right?

slakmagik · 03-08-2004, 11:27 PM

Nope. Unless all your manpages are in there.

More like

/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/lib/java/man:/usr/lib/qt-3.2.1/doc/man:
/usr/share/texmf/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/local/share/man

or so.

Something got screwed up in /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, or something.

Fix that or add

export MANPATH="$MANPATH:/usr/local/share/man"

with whatever path you'd like, to ~/.bash_profile or wherever you'd like.

BrianK · 03-10-2004, 11:40 AM

perfect. Thanks!