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I just installed gzip, wget, and bash on solaris 8 x86. However, doing a 'man' on each of them reports "No manual entry for <application>". How I installed them were:
1. went to sunfreeware.com and downloaded the packages
2. pkgadd -d <package>
The packages were installed successfully and I can use them but no man pages present. Is it like this with solaris or do I need to do something else to have man pages present for packages? Thanks!
the path to the man pages should be in an environment variable
but just out of curiosity what does
man -K wget
say? ... anyways.. they where probably not installed into the man path.. so go search where the program was installed for the man pages (if any where installed) and move them into the man path
'man -K wget' doesn't work but 'man -k wget' does and it shows:
bash-2.05b# man -k wget
/usr/man/windex: No such file or directory
/usr/local/man/windex: No such file or directory
/usr/man/windex: No such file or directory
/usr/local/man/windex: No such file or directory
/usr/local/doc/windex: No such file or directory
/usr/man/windex: No such file or directory
/usr/local/man/windex: No such file or directory
What does all that mean?
However, I did export MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/local/man and then the man pages worked! Thanks!
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
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All these errors means actually that the windex database wasn't created in each man page directory, which is Solaris default..
This is avoiding man -k, whatis and apropos commands to succeed.
See catman(1M) to see how to build the database.
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