CentOS man -k not working

Donquixote · 09-11-2015, 08:34 AM

Hi guys,

I have installed CentOS 7 on virtual box and when I type in for instance "man -k time" it says "nothing appropriate". The same thing happens on my RHEL 7 as well.

I have run "rpm -q man" it says man packages not installed then when I go into root and type in "yum install man" it says man is already installed. I find that odd.

I have then checked if the man-pages package is installed that comes out installed.

If someone could help me I would be eternally grateful

Kind Regards

knudfl · 09-11-2015, 09:01 AM

Welcome to LQ.

# yum install man-pages

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.1....6_64/Packages/
... No package by name "man". But you get /usr/bin/man
EDIT : Please run $ rpm -ql man-pages | grep bin ,,, to know other "man commands"
/usr/bin/apropos EDIT : See post #4.
/usr/bin/man
/usr/bin/man2dvi
/usr/bin/man2html
/usr/bin/manpath
/usr/bin/whatis
/usr/sbin/makewhatis

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Donquixote · 09-11-2015, 09:28 AM

rpm -ql man-pages | grep bin
/usr/share/man/man2/bind.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man2/mbind.2.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/bindresvport.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3p/bind.3p.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/slabinfo.5.gz

thats all i get what does that mean? that man pages is not installed?

knudfl · 09-11-2015, 10:46 AM

Re #3.

Sorry, I must have mixed up somthing, when I did rpm -ql man-pages .. on CentOS 7.

The package man-db provides
/usr/bin/apropos
/usr/bin/catman
/usr/bin/lexgrog
/usr/bin/man
/usr/bin/mandb
/usr/bin/manpath
/usr/bin/whatis

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Donquixote · 09-11-2015, 10:51 AM

rpm -ql man-db | grep bin
/usr/bin/apropos
/usr/bin/catman
/usr/bin/lexgrog
/usr/bin/man
/usr/bin/mandb
/usr/bin/manpath
/usr/bin/whatis
/usr/libexec/man-db/globbing
/usr/sbin/accessdb

this is what I get when I do the man-db package

knudfl · 09-11-2015, 11:09 AM

Re #3

Yes, post #4 only shows the /usr/bin/ executable`s.