apropos and whatis aren't working in konsole
Apropos and whatis commands don't work in the konsole; the computer responds to everything I type with, 'nothing appropriate'. Please give me some ideas for fixing this problem!
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You probably first need to update the databases. Usually this happens automagically from a cron job somewhere in /etc/cron(.daily/?) which you can also run manually. If one is for instance called "/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron" and it its executable bit is set you just run '/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron' or '/bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron' if the bit it isn't set.
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Not a directory!
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The /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron and /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron files are provided by the "man" package. If you don't have those two files (and you didn't delete them ;-p) then it could be you simply need to install the "man" and "mlocate" packages: 'urpmi man mlocate'.
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Still didn't work!
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Unless you can load the packages from a CDROM or DVD then yes, you need an Internet connection. And the commands won't do much until the first time the database is updated, either via the cron job or by running it manually.
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Thanks for your help!
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