I am getting the following output from my manpages. I'm using Gentoo, with lzma compression on the pages. I don't know if this has been dealt with before (probably has), but I need a quick solution to this.

Shingoshi

The same thing happens with using info, too! Just found that out.

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Did you recompress the manpages? I've only seen manpages with .gz extentions. Does "less /path/to/manpage" show the troff source? The man command normally uses the less program for it's pager. Look at the value of your PAGER environment variable. That is the pager that your man program uses. If there is a pager that displays text with lzma compression, then changing the PAGER variable in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc may fix the program.

The variable for doing it is:
PORTAGE_COMPRESS="lzma"

I need someone to tell me exactly how to recompress the manpages, since I don't have a manpage which I can read to tell me. So I need the exact command(s, in proper order) to eliminate this problem.

Shingoshi

Is that the default value for that variable. If so, check the value of the PAGER variable. It probably will be "less". If it is "less", then check the value of your "LESSOPEN" environment variable. The LESSOPEN variable should contain the name of the program that less uses to analyse the file and uncompress it using the correct program. That program will create a temporary file. The environment variable LESSCLOSE will contain the name of a program that deletes the temporary file.

If you recompress your man files, you will end up doing so for new packages.

I had previously given instructions on how I thought I had solved this. But the situation REMAINS.

I originally got a complaint about:

man emerge
fgets: No such file or directory
Error reading man page /usr/share/man/man1/emerge.1.lzma

Changing the settings in /etc/man.conf had NO effect on this whatsoever. The situation remains. It seems that unless an instruction exists, to recompress existing man-pages to another type, the only solution is to rebuild all packages with "emerge -e system or emerge -e world". I haven't tested either of these yet, so I don't actually know.

Xavian-Anderson Macpherson
Shingoshi

I came across this in my searching:

Following emerge =dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03-r13, the man pages installed
in /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/man/man1/ (and any localized man pages) are
doubly compressed as .gz.bz2 files, which the 'man' command cannot handle
properly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03-r13
2. ls -l /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/man/man1
3. man -M /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/man

I don't know if this applies to me or not. I did recently attempt to install blackdown, though
unsuccessfully. Some pages are properly visible, and others are not. I think man is attempting
to use lzma when reading old .bz2 pages. That's not correct, and should never happen.

Shingoshi

That being the case, it doesn't seem that running "emerge -e system" would make any difference, since if this happens with newly installed packages, rebuilding them would likely yield the same result.

Shingoshi

Running "emerge -e system" did resolve the situation. At the end of doing so, I found out I had not properly set the (de)compression for lzma in /etc/man.conf.

Here are the correct settings:

COMPRESS /usr/bin/lzma
COMPRESS_EXT .lzma

# Decompress with given decompressor when input file has given extension
# The command given must act as a filter.
.lzma /usr/bin/unlzma -c -d

Shingoshi